I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.
Tituss Burgess
It's important for me to talk about my life as a gay man, not gay themes per se, in my work.
I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.
When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I have always thought to do my best work.
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.
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 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.
Taking care of children was not something I was good at.
The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.
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'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.
I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.
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!
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.
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?
I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.
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.
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.
The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.
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.'
I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.
Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.
I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do.
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've always been weird.
I'm very much an introvert.
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.
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.
I don't like flashy things.
I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.
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.
