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" Even on my worst days... the influx of joy that I get from interactions with fans... is a treat. "
Tituss Burgess
Days
Fans
Worst
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Opportunities
Grateful
" I've always been weird. "
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Always
Been
" The people I've met have been inherently delicious and warm and appreciative. It makes those 14-hour-days so worth it. "
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" My microphone went out in the 2009 Tony Awards. It was my big moment, and I was so excited to perform and lead the cast; I sang 'Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat.' Every actor dreams of standing front and center on the Tony Awards, and I start to sing, and you hear this crackling. I had no idea what to do - were they going to stop a live telecast? "
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You
" Actors are a peculiar breed. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Christian
Gay
Black
" Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook? "
Tituss Burgess
You
Why
Dinner
" I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem. "
Tituss Burgess
Problem
Being Myself
Myself
" I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV. "
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" 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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Work
Live
Happiness
" Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in. "
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You
Come
Door
" 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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Women
Us
People
" I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it. "
Tituss Burgess
New
Writing
Wife
" I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do. "
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Think
People
Attention
" 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! "
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Need
Morning
Coffee
" The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me. "
Tituss Burgess
Get
Older
Easier
" Sondheim is New York. "
Tituss Burgess
Sondheim
New York
New
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Singing
Communication
Cooking
" There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job. "
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Showing Up
Job
Doing
" Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different. "
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Man
People
Be Different
" It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work. "
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Life
My Life
Me
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Need
Filming
Get
" 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. "
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Never
Through
Trouble
" 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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Always
Feel
Humor
" I don't like flashy things. "
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Flashy
Things
Like
" I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut. "
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Think
I Think
Got
" 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
" I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep! "
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Games
Dark
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