Zitat des Tages von Tituss Burgess:
I never had trouble within the audition room. That is a room that I control. So while I certainly experienced versions of what Titus Andromedon was going through, I never experienced the self-doubt.
There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.
I could not leave Georgia fast enough.
I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.
The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.
I think Donald Trump has put America in great danger, and I think he's done a disservice to us even if he doesn't win. I think his effect is going to be kind of lasting.
One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'
I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.
I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.
I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.
I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian.
I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.
I'm very much an introvert.
When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't.
I don't like flashy things.
I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.
When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.
I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.
I've always been weird.
Sondheim is New York.
I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time.
I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.
I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.
Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer.
Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?
Even on my worst days... the influx of joy that I get from interactions with fans... is a treat.
I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.
You put it out there, you go film it, you go write it, you go record it... but the fans are the ones who decide it.
Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.
I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!
Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.
The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.
I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.
Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.
I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people.