Leslie Odom, Jr. Quotes
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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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Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?
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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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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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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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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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You gotta prove yourself. I'm not above that. I will never be above that. Bring it!
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We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
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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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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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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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I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.
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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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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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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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I'm the nap champion.
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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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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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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.
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I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
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I grew up in the Canaan Baptist Church.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.