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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. "

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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" I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible. "

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" I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids. "

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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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" 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. "

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" It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience. "

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" I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level. "

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" People are coming to you at their most vulnerable; they're showing you the parts of themselves that they're afraid to show: the parts that they're not so sure about, not so secure in. And so it's a really holy profession I think, teaching. If you do it right, it can change somebody's life. "

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" 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. "

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" For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes. "

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" If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA. "

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" I've been fortunate in my life. It hasn't been easy, but there has been a focus on the positive, and it has reverberated. Eventually, the outlook mirrors itself back to you in the friends you have, in the partner that you choose. "

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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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" Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me! "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show. "

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" I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right. "

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" What is the future going to say about us now? What are our kids going to look at us and say, 'How could you not stop that person from getting into power? How could you not stop that environmental disaster that you saw coming a mile away?' "

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" 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. "

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