Quotes from Lin-Manuel Miranda

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.

I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.

I only know how to write musicals.

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.

Because of the success of 'Hamilton' and 'On Your Feet!' you can't hide behind the old argument of, 'It needs to be bankable, so we can't put all these people of color in the show.' We are bankable.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

There's been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not, it's used as a joke - isn't it hilarious that these characters are rapping. I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.

I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

It was a real dream come true just to get the job [in Moana], and yeah, and we sort of got right to work.

I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'

A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.