Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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To get even realer with you for a second, as a black actor, as a performer of color, I don't know how many more roles like Aaron Burr are gonna come along for me.
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The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.
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I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.
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You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
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I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.
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There's this Frank Wildhorn tune 'Sarah' - it's not a widely known tune, but it's my favorite song to sing.
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I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
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I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
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'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.
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I think for a lot of us, you know, what 'Hamilton' gave us the opportunity to, what it gave me the opportunity to do, was to go, 'Here's what I've learned in 35 years.'
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I don't want to leave anything offstage.
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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
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I wanted to make an album that was hopeful and encouraging and inspiring. That was the goal.
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I remember Ella Fitzgerald sort of coming into my life like a bolt of lightning - like, what is that? It was one of the purest examples of God in art that I'd ever seen.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
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I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'
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I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.
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I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
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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.
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Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!
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What's a better foundation for drama? You have power, you have ambition, you have sex... that's the stuff of drama.
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I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.
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My dad was always in sales. My mom had a heart for the ages. Worked in recreation, doing rehabilitation in nursing homes. Very nice, practical folks who were very proud of me but had no inclination toward the stage in any way.