Quotes from Daveed Diggs

Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.

Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

I'm from the Bay Area, so I know a lot about granola.

I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try to shift policy, voting and changing who's in office. But we can make huge, sweeping changes on a personal level and in your immediate circle, or just the people around you.

Being multiracial has allowed me to feel comfortable walking in all different circles.

I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

I make the energy to go out. You can't let the Broadway schedule run you.

Broadway was weird.

I didn't aspire to be on Broadway.

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.

I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.'

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

The fact that I got to do the 'Hamilton' BET Cypher is a totally crazy thing because I've watched the BET Cyphers since it started. I've seen every one. I study them. Because I'm a rapper. It's what you do.

At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

I get excited to create things that don't exist in the same world as 'Hamilton' because that world is really well done and doesn't need me to inform it anymore.

All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that.

To walk into a casting room full of people who look like you is a crazy thing. What is the thing that necessitates all of us having the exact same shade of skin and having the same hair? What about this deodorant commercial needs that?

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way.