Words matter. These are the best Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
My No. 1 artistic inspiration in theater is Brian Stokes Mitchell.
I was a fan of ‘Power’ before I was working on the show, so I’m excited by every script that comes into my hands.
People talking about making America great again? America’s never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
Every experience I’ve had with ‘Power’ has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.
As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.
I have a wide range of influences – I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there’s people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John… a diverse array of music.
My introduction to Motown was through The Jackson Five and Michael Jackson. Michael’s been my greatest creative inspiration, so that’s how I really became familiar with Motown as a whole, and as I got older, I learned far more about the other groups.
Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there’s not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.
I always thought from my knowledge of London theater and the audiences here that they would appreciate a truly genius piece of theatrical work.
I got to meet Colm Wilkinson once, and I was ecstatic.
Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing ‘Superstar’ with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I’ve ever had the opportunity to do.
‘Hamilton’ and ‘Shuffle Along’ are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they’ve made on American life.
As a country, we like to ignore our past. We don’t like to look at it.
For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there’s a real difference.
Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
That’s the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.
Oprah’s such a wonderful spirit; she’s been given a lot of gifts in her life, and she gives them back.
The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that ‘Hamilton’ is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.
I think ‘Rent’ will run forever.
I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.
Art is meant to bring people together. It’s meant to raise consciousness.
Style and image – it’s what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists’ development department.
Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.
Every day alive in the ‘Power’ world is a beautiful day.
It’s important to seize any opportunity one has to speak to their elected representatives, no matter the situation.
I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That’s actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.
I’m an activist and advocate. I have empathy. It is hard to ignore causes.
If people are coming to ‘Hamilton’ to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.
We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they’re in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can’t help but do so offstage as well.
We, as a society, have become very fixed in our ideas of how things were, how they are, and how they should be.
The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.
Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of times people have favorite songs that are Motown songs that they didn’t even know were Motown songs.
I love theater. You can’t replicate the live format.
I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn’t know what he looked like or anything about him.
I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we’ll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.
‘Rent’ audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.
I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I’m really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I’ve known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.
I know a lot of people say, ‘You’re an athlete or actor… and you shouldn’t speak up.’ I think that makes no sense. No matter who you are, no matter what you do in the country, you’re a part of our democracy, and if you have a voice, you need to use it.
I’m artistically critical of my own work.