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" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Smart
You
Legend
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" There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job. "
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" I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it. "
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" 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. "
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" When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it. "
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House
" This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing. "
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" Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone. "
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" The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me. "
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" For me, having walked through Times Square so many times as a broke and starving artist, as a TV star, and now having other hopes and dreams, it just represents possibility and the moment of full circle. "
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" I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning. "
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Secret
" I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut. "
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I Think
Got
" I will work for Tina Fey forever. "
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" Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm, outside of what is expected of us. Black women on Broadway are expected to put themselves downstage center and tear the roof off. "
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" I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do. "
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" 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. "
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You
Hope
" 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. "
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Fan
Fact
Casting
" I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear. "
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Think
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" I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants. "
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Am
Lucky
Comic
" Actors are a peculiar breed. "
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Breed
" I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well. "
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Resting
Well
You
" Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song. "
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Singing
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Hunger
" I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's. "
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Singing
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Cooking
" People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in a place where nothing's working and not being able to work your way out of it. It's much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive. "
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" I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older. "
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" 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. "
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Kitchen
Love
" 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. "
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Got
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Me
" I prayed fervently for a series regular job on a show that had the perceived caliber of talent that '30 Rock' had. "
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Had
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" I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself. "
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Sad
Alone
" I hate L.A. Can't be bothered. "
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Hate
Bothered
" I had this one audition - I won't say the casting director's name, but she was on the phone the whole time I sang. I was literally doing my audition, and she was on the phone. So I guess whatever it is she was ordering for lunch was more important than the high C's I was belting out. "
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She
Lunch
Doing
" 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. "
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Go
Film
Fans