Quotes from Christopher Jackson

If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.

The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.

Because for every Lin Miranda performance, there's some young person out there saying, 'Oh, I can write something like this.' Or, 'I didn't think that this was possible.' It opens a world of possibilities.

I took a trip to D.C. before the Off Broadway production started, and one of the things that was really telling is that Hamilton has probably the smallest statue in all of the Mall area, and yet he's got the greatest monument of any of them because we're all walking around with him in our pockets.

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.

I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.

I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.'

I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.

I love television, and I get so spoiled because I'm coming from such an amazing ensemble in 'Hamilton' to such an amazing ensemble on 'Bull.'

I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter.

Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.

There's only one Broadway and that's in New York City.

I'm used to multitasking... I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.

I've had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it's influenced the great artists of our time.

One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's real blood flowing through their veins. There's real conflict. There's real life.

Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.

I consider it a great honor to be able to step on stage every night and do a show that people have paid money to see.