Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Tituss Burgess

Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

I don't enjoy attention as much as people may think I do.

I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at least, be nominated.

I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd jobs to pay the bills before that. And being in New York for the first year, I got here in 2003, and it was a very exciting but very scary time not knowing how you would make ends meet and me trying to meet people.

I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.

I don't like flashy things.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep!

I'm writing a musical. I am. I was able to buy the rights to 'The Preacher's Wife,' which starred Whitney Houston... I'm writing a whole new score and all the lyrics for it.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

When I cook at home, most of the people I cook for want to be in the kitchen while I'm cooking. I love nothing more than someone monitoring how much salt I put into something, how much pepper I add - but nothing that you can offer is going to sway how I decide to deliver information to you; you'll either receive it or you won't.

I think Donald Trump has put America in great danger, and I think he's done a disservice to us even if he doesn't win. I think his effect is going to be kind of lasting.

'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.

The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.

Ellie Kemper I just adore. She is such a warm, generous actor, and we have this wonderful rapport off camera, and that's very important.

Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

One thing about my dinner parties - they're never planned. I go to the grocery store, and I buy whatever is on sale. I get a lot of it, and I just send out a mass text: 'I just bought food. Dinner's at 8. Text me if you're coming.'

I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.

I'm not one of those people to outgrow my initial blessings.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.

I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.

The level of comfort that people feel with me has taken some getting used to.

Carol Kane is just as warm as you would think she is, and she is so smart and really a living legend and has so much to offer.

I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.

I was on 'Blue Bloods.' Which I think got cut.

Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.

I'm very much an introvert.

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't have a problem.

I feel like communication is the same whether you're cooking for someone or singing or writing a song or writing a play or ordering from McDonald's.

I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it.

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.

Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm, outside of what is expected of us. Black women on Broadway are expected to put themselves downstage center and tear the roof off.

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

I get to do some unbelievably layered things. The material that I'm given is so complex, and I'm so grateful for it, so I welcome any opportunities to push boundaries.

Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing.

I've always been weird.

I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.

To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.

The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.

I had this one audition - I won't say the casting director's name, but she was on the phone the whole time I sang. I was literally doing my audition, and she was on the phone. So I guess whatever it is she was ordering for lunch was more important than the high C's I was belting out.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV.

One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it.

Life moves so fast, my friend. I am just lucky and happy to have the people I care about there along with me, watching all of this occur.

This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.

I'm obsessed with the 'Real Housewives ATL,' sorry about it. It's one of my favorite shows of all time.

There is absolutely nothing that you can control except showing up and doing your job.

I hate L.A. Can't be bothered.

I love 'Bates Motel.' I'm a huge Vera Farmiga fan, and I'm a huge Freddie Highmore fan. In fact, that entire principal casting.

On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.

I never had trouble within the audition room. That is a room that I control. So while I certainly experienced versions of what Titus Andromedon was going through, I never experienced the self-doubt.