I know what not being able to pay your bills feels like real well... I know that way better than a room full of beautiful people and Tony awards and Grammy awards.
When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.
I don't want to leave anything offstage.
You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.
I'm the nap champion.
What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.
When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.
I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.
I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!
I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
You need to put your head down and... try not to lose hope.
There are certainly people who have committed horrific, evil acts in the history of humanity. I don't think Aaron Burr's one of them.
What a casting director does is they're a connector.
I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.
The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.
I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.
I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
