Top 55 Tituss Burgess Quotes

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.

Sondheim is New York.

I’m very involved in church and social-justice issues, and my personality is far more introspective.

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

I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.

‘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.

Miserable people tend to act out.

People have to work to maintain happiness. It’s easy to be miserable. It’s easy to stay miserable. It’s easy to live in a place where nothing’s working and not being able to work your way out of it. It’s much harder to choose happiness, to choose laughter, to choose a positive.

I don’t want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don’t write until it comes to me… People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don’t want to waste anyone’s time.

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

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.

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.

Why invite you to dinner if I can’t cook?

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

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

I will work for Tina Fey forever.

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

I hate L.A. Can’t be bothered.

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

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.

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.

I feel most at home when I’m alone. That’s not sad. It’s just I feel closest to source and connection when I’m by myself.

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

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.

The people I’ve met have been inherently delicious and warm and appreciative. It makes those 14-hour-days so worth it.

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

You put it out there, you go film it, you go write it, you go record it… but the fans are the ones who decide it.

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 came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light.

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

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.

My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It’s one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don’t know why she added an ‘s,’ but she just did.

I get to play some zany, multilayered, very complex individuals.

Here’s what I’m going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of ‘Peeno Noir’ as proven by the fans’ appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we’ve done all over the city.

I have always thought to do my best work.

I was on ‘Blue Bloods.’ Which I think got cut.

For me, having walked through Times Square so many times as a broke and starving artist, as a TV star, and now having other hopes and dreams, it just represents possibility and the moment of full circle.

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!

I could not leave Georgia fast enough.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

I’m a Pisces – I can’t rest if you aren’t resting well.