Quotes from Jordan Fisher

There was a girl in fifth grade that I had a crush on that joined drama club, so I joined the drama club because I'm not an idiot, and I was gonna hang with her.

I started playing on my grandmother's organ at a really young age. I learned 'Chopsticks' and that kind of thing, but I didn't really start picking it up and start taking it super seriously until I was probably about 13, 14.

I hope I can just be a regular human being to people.

No one really sees the hours of work you put into that moment that finally happens on television or in the theater; they just kind of see the result.

I'm a massive fan of Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, and Justin Timberlake.

We need music that makes complete sense to us, and that's how 'Mess' came about.

Being on 'Grease: Live' was a massive mile marker. It ultimately led me to 'Hamilton.'

I've worked at a Game Stop and had my service turned down before because of the color of my skin. And it's a shame.

When you're on Broadway, what's kind of the whole point is that you find something new in the show each night.

I'm mixed, and I'm proud of that.

I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my Italian - everything that makes me, me.

Being able to invest in my community and invest in areas that people might not really know about and monuments that people might not know about in their own backyard is a great opportunity.

My ultimate goal in my life is to have a family.

As a species, I think if we could be half as good as dogs, I think the world would be a much better place.

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world and say that character or person, that name, that song, and everyone knows what it is. Mickey Mouse is one, Disney, in general. In terms of gaming, Super Mario, he's everywhere.

Musical theatre is, for sure, my first love.

When I get the opportunity to do what I love while also taking a stance on things I believe in, it's a very beautiful thing.

My relationship with God and my parents, that's what keeps me together. I know that everything could end as soon as it starts.

I'm normally based in L.A.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

It's because of their unrelenting, unconditional support and love I'm able to have the life that I have now and do everything I love to do, and that starts with the selflessness and love of my mom and dad.

My upbringing in Birmingham gave me a sense of reality. I could not pick another city I would rather have grown up in. Growing up around really good, solid, godly people, it helped me to find those kind of great people in L.A., too, which can be hard for some people.

I grew up listening to the greats of the '80s and, thanks to my parents, the '70s - the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie.