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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until you make a name for yourself, they're like, 'Be a little more Denzel,' 'Be a little more Wesley Snipes.'
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.
- Lasts
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- Nov 07, 2020