Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.
— Tituss Burgess
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.
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.
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!
There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job.
I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.
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.
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.
I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.
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.
There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.
I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.
I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.
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.
The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.
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.
The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.
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.
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.
I don't like flashy things.
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.
I'm very much an introvert.
I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do.
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.
I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.
I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.
One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'
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.
I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut.
I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.
I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it.
When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.
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.
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.
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.
I've always been weird.
On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.
Ellie Kemper I just adore. She is such a warm, generous actor, and we have this wonderful rapport off camera, and that's very important.
Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.
I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.
I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.
