I’m in no way running from ‘Hamilton’ or its success or these beautiful songs that I’ve been blessed to be able to be the one to introduce them. I certainly won’t be the last to sing them, but to be the first, I feel very lucky. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
I started out with this ‘La Boheme’ fantasy, but as you get older, the ‘La Boheme’ fantasy becomes less sexy, believe me. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
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. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
There was a lot of the ‘Hamilton’ experience that was like a locomotive. It was a hurricane, so the apartment often looked like a hurricane. There were clothes and shoes all over. We were getting more things in than we had room for. We had to figure out how to make space for all the blessings and goodness coming toward us. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
I’ve done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I’m trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody’s writing with my experience in mind. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
You can’t judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things – well, so do I. So what am I capable of? Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
When I see the black experience – there’s not one, but it is specific, and you can’t ignore it. Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
I’ve been involved with ‘Hamilton’ for about two and a half years. I’ve learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I’ve dropped the ‘young.’ Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me! Leslie Odom, Jr. Read Quote
