Top 30 Christopher Jackson Quotes

The reach of ‘Hamilton’ never surprises me. It’s always a delight to meet someone who’s seen the show.

I’d like to think of myself as an ambassador for Broadway.

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.

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’

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.

There’s only one Broadway and that’s in New York City.

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

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.

I love television, and I get so spoiled because I’m coming from such an amazing ensemble in ‘Hamilton’ to such an amazing ensemble on ‘Bull.’

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

There’s never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.

It instantly felt like, for me as an actor that I justified, I was able to draw a direct relation between Chris the actor and being George Washington.

I’m used to multitasking… I like it that way. I like when things are busy. I strive off the pace.

Hamilton’ doesn’t compare to anything I’ve ever done.

I came into the business where Will Smith was pretty much taking over the world – or defending it, if you will. He was showing success on so many different fronts – television, recording, movies. So that was really my prototype in terms of looking at the business and seeing where you fit in.

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

I’ve joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.

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.

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

If an artist doesn’t have anything to say, he’ll be quiet. Or he’ll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.

I knew I wanted to be in the arts and acting.

I’ve had to make time to really explore all the amazing things that are out and try to understand the history of how fashion has moved through modern times and how it shaped everything, from overall aesthetic to design to how it’s influenced the great artists of our time.

I get great joy from being a part of a play that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.

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.’

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.

One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we’ve always revered as figures of antiquity and there’s real blood flowing through their veins. There’s real conflict. There’s real life.

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.

Every day is different. I’ve only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That’s the same genesis as hip-hop.