19 Billy Porter Quotes for You to Enjoy

Billy Porter

American Actor

Born: Sep 21, 1969

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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering. Billy Porter

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I wouldn't be caught dead in red. Billy Porter

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If you gauge how you're doing on whether somebody is responding vocally or not, you're up a creek. You can't do that; you kind of have to be inside of your work and play the scene. And tell the story every day. Tell the story. Tell the story. Regardless of how people are responding, I'm going to tell the story. Billy Porter

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card. Billy Porter

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Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business. Billy Porter

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When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market. Billy Porter

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When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed. Billy Porter

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I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch. Billy Porter

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I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out. Billy Porter

My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that. Billy Porter

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People don't see me in traditional roles; I'm not getting cast in the revival of 'Company' as Bobby. Billy Porter

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For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that. Billy Porter

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Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays. Billy Porter

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Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all. Billy Porter

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