Tituss Burgess Quotes

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

More, Shrink, Might, Foreign

Sondheim is New York.

- Tituss Burgess

New York, New, York, Sondheim

I will work for Tina Fey forever.

- Tituss Burgess

Work, Will, Fey, Tina

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Play, Angles, Vantage, Animated

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

Song, Singing, Play, McDonald

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, Which, Musical, None

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Here, Very, Odd Jobs, Early

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Think, Legend, Living, Carol

I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending emails.

- Tituss Burgess

Down, Like, Emails, Journal

I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.

- Tituss Burgess

Sense Of Humor, Always, Like, Sordid

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

Lunch, Doing, Ordering, Casting

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

Love, Fact, Vera, Casting

I'm very involved in church and social-justice issues, and my personality is far more introspective.

- Tituss Burgess

Personality, Very, Involved, Introspective

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

- Tituss Burgess

Doing, Absolutely Nothing, Showing Up

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

Love, Deliver, Pepper, Kitchen

Here's what I'm going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of 'Peeno Noir' as proven by the fans' appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we've done all over the city.

- Tituss Burgess

City, Thought, Here, Noir

Actors are a peculiar breed.

- Tituss Burgess

Breed, Peculiar

I prayed fervently for a series regular job on a show that had the perceived caliber of talent that '30 Rock' had.

- Tituss Burgess

Show, Caliber, Prayed, 30 Rock

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, Feel, Source, Closest

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.

- Tituss Burgess

Work, I Am, Lucky, Giants

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

Process, Doing, Next, Creative Process

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?

- Tituss Burgess

Dreams, Big, Idea, Boat

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

Want, Sound, Waste, Pretentious

'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

- Tituss Burgess

Believe, Real, Tonality, Possibility

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

Through, Other, TV, Possibility

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Broadway, Put, Norm, Different Things

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Think, Trump, Donald, None

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Song, Need, Going, Grab

I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

- Tituss Burgess

Literally, County, Grew, Athens

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

- Tituss Burgess

Theatre, Library, Musical, Collect

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Like, Very, Many Levels, Levels

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

- Tituss Burgess

Walking, Black, Many Levels, Levels

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.'

- Tituss Burgess

Buy, Mass, About, Send

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

- Tituss Burgess

Partner, Would, Honestly, Bored

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

- Tituss Burgess

Book, Alone, Enjoy, Open Book

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, Doing, Here, Good Fortune

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Wonderful, Rapport, Very, Camera

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Grateful, Some, Given, Push

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Deal, Still, Which, Great Deal

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

- Tituss Burgess

Always, Given, Lyric, Heart And Soul

I'm very much an introvert.

- Tituss Burgess

Very, Much, Introvert

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

- Tituss Burgess

Enough, Attention, Like, Oddly

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!

- Tituss Burgess

Movie, Awake, Them, Rises

I have always thought to do my best work.

- Tituss Burgess

Work, Thought, Always, Best Work

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Through, Audition, Certainly, Experienced

Even on my worst days... the influx of joy that I get from interactions with fans... is a treat.

- Tituss Burgess

Joy, Treat, Even, Interactions

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

Nature, Wait, Oppressive, Gay

It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.

- Tituss Burgess

Work, My Life, About, Gay

The people I've met have been inherently delicious and warm and appreciative. It makes those 14-hour-days so worth it.

- Tituss Burgess

Worth It, Been, Makes, Appreciative

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.

- Tituss Burgess

New, Give, Minutes, Unfolds

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

Some, Role, Supposedly, Producers

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.

- Tituss Burgess

How, Same, Would, Stark

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

- Tituss Burgess

Fast, Leave, Could, Georgia

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Happy, Lucky, Occur, I Care

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Thought, New, Least, Tony

Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?

- Tituss Burgess

Dinner, Cook, Why, Invite

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

- Tituss Burgess

Earth, Than, Hover, Closer

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, Miserable, Maintain, Harder

I'm obsessed with the 'Real Housewives ATL,' sorry about it. It's one of my favorite shows of all time.

- Tituss Burgess

Obsessed, About, Housewives, Favorite Shows

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Church, Out, Had, Give Me

I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it.

- Tituss Burgess

Sleep, Need, Lot, Filming

The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.

- Tituss Burgess

Me, Older, Get, Easier

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

- Tituss Burgess

Blessings, People, Initial, Outgrow

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.

- Tituss Burgess

Door, Very, Means, Closed

I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.

- Tituss Burgess

Amazing, Chicken, Seasoning, Fried

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

- Tituss Burgess

Song, New, Through, Hunger

I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.

- Tituss Burgess

Tell, Epic, Naps, Awards

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

Play, Over, TV, Dinner

I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.

- Tituss Burgess

Hate, Bothered

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

Anybody, Auditions, Forbid, Outright

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

- Tituss Burgess

Country, Particularly, Issue, Dialogue

I don't like flashy things.

- Tituss Burgess

Like, Things, Flashy

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

Doing, Want, Here, Fickle

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, Never, Lot, Trouble

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, Dirty, Wear, Laundry

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

- Tituss Burgess

Artist, Crossover, One Thing, Audiences

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!

- Tituss Burgess

Want, Need, Anybody, Coffee

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

- Tituss Burgess

Play, Some, Very, Complex

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

- Tituss Burgess

Outside, Nervous, Makes, Stimulation

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

Kid, Everyone, Wanting, Inspired

Miserable people tend to act out.

- Tituss Burgess

People, Act, Tend, Miserable

You put it out there, you go film it, you go write it, you go record it... but the fans are the ones who decide it.

- Tituss Burgess

Go, Film, Record, Decide

I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.

- Tituss Burgess

Rest, You, Well, Resting

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

- Tituss Burgess

Think, I Think, Which, Blue

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

Bible, Religious, Smallest, Added

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

- Tituss Burgess

Way, Just, Your, Turn

The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.

- Tituss Burgess

Some, Level, Getting, Comfort

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

- Tituss Burgess

Racism, Honestly, Learned, One Day

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