Quotes from Christopher Jackson

With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

I pay attention when people get manicures and pedicures. I've always noticed it as a guy. When my wife goes to get her nails done, I'm always very aware of it.

I'd like to think of myself as an ambassador for Broadway.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing songs all day, doing the show, staying up until 3 A. M. Writing more songs, recording demos in the intermission in my dressing room.

That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'

I've been playing team sports since I could walk... so anything sports-related story is always fun for me.

To me there's nothing more fascinating than a roomful of young people just trying to look at the world and seeing how they can affect it as they're being affected by it.

If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along.

I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world - or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts - television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.

Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.

I get goosebumps going out on stage every night.

I get great joy from being a part of a play that doesn't take itself too seriously.

There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.

Hamilton' doesn't compare to anything I've ever done.

Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.

I've been telling people that 'Hamilton' is very much a glimpse of what it's like to be inside Lin's brain.

Being a part of the 'Hamilton' family has been the most thrilling and rewarding experience of my career.

It instantly felt like, for me as an actor that I justified, I was able to draw a direct relation between Chris the actor and being George Washington.

The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.

Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible.

I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved.