24 Christopher Jackson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Christopher Jackson

American Actor

Born: Sep 30, 1975

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I get goosebumps going out on stage every night. Christopher Jackson

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If you look back throughout the history of Broadway, there's always been periods where writers and producers have delivered the kind of things that people want to see, while at the same time pushing the form along. Christopher Jackson

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That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton' Christopher Jackson

I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.' Christopher Jackson

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Because for every Lin Miranda performance, there's some young person out there saying, 'Oh, I can write something like this.' Or, 'I didn't think that this was possible.' It opens a world of possibilities. Christopher Jackson

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There's only one Broadway and that's in New York City. Christopher Jackson

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Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting. Christopher Jackson

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I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me. Christopher Jackson

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Broadway is at its best when it represents as many people as possible. Christopher Jackson

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The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens. Christopher Jackson

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I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter. Christopher Jackson

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When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing songs all day, doing the show, staying up until 3 A. M. Writing more songs, recording demos in the intermission in my dressing room. Christopher Jackson

I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved. Christopher Jackson

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Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out. Christopher Jackson

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You can make the most powerful movie ever made, and you hope that whatever resonates gets taken home and survives the night. You also hope that, the next morning, it gives someone pause before they would act on their more base instincts, or out of habit. Christopher Jackson

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With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of. Christopher Jackson

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I know it's going to sound cliche, but we're all artists just trying to tell a story. Whether it's on television or whether it's in a theater, you just hope that people are moved. Christopher Jackson

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Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story. Christopher Jackson

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I've been telling people that 'Hamilton' is very much a glimpse of what it's like to be inside Lin's brain. Christopher Jackson

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