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" I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it. "
Tituss Burgess
Need
Filming
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" 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
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Fan
Fact
Casting
" 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've always been weird. "
Tituss Burgess
Weird
Always
Been
" My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did. "
Tituss Burgess
Name
Bible
Know
" I will work for Tina Fey forever. "
Tituss Burgess
Will
Tina Fey
Tina
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Hope
Me
I Am
" Outside stimulation makes me nervous! "
Tituss Burgess
Me
Makes
Nervous
" Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook? "
Tituss Burgess
You
Why
Dinner
" I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards. "
Tituss Burgess
Epic
Naps
You
" The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work. "
Tituss Burgess
Go
Work
Creative
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Home
Kitchen
Love
" One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it. "
Tituss Burgess
Me
Want
Nothing
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Work
Live
Happiness
" I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well. "
Tituss Burgess
Resting
Well
You
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Me
You
Hope
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
She
Lunch
Doing
" I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear. "
Tituss Burgess
Think
Comfortable
Laundry
" There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job. "
Tituss Burgess
Showing Up
Job
Doing
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Now
Dreams
Circle
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Got
Man
Me
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Know
Me
People
" So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light. "
Tituss Burgess
Community
Light
Positive
" I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut. "
Tituss Burgess
Think
I Think
Got
" I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them. "
Tituss Burgess
Theatre
Library
Them
" I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian. "
Tituss Burgess
Christian
Walking
Many
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Myself
Sad
Alone
" I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV. "
Tituss Burgess
Go
Dinner
Watch
" If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored. "
Tituss Burgess
Bored
Dog
Florida
" 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. "
Tituss Burgess
Gone
Time
Want