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" There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job. "

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" 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. "

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" Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut. "

" 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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" Life moves so fast, my friend. I am just lucky and happy to have the people I care about there along with me, watching all of this occur. "

" I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds. "

" We were always in church, and always singing, so once I realized that music was something that I had a knack for, I sort of latched onto it, and it helped give me an identity and figure out who I was as a person. It informed my way into theater, which informed my way into television. "

" I will work for Tina Fey forever. "

" I'm a walking contradiction on so many levels. I'm gay, black, and a Christian. "

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" 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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