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Leslie Odom, Jr.
Profession : Actor
Birth : August 6, 1981
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I think I spent most of my childhood, and my early years as a performer, in student mode. And I think that's OK - I mean, it led me to where I am.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I know what it's like to be ignored; when I got to L.A., I longed for somebody who looked like me to show me the ropes.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I don't have any control over the offers that are going to come to me or not come to me. But I can't go backward, and so that's what's tricky.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Until you make a name for yourself, they're like, 'Be a little more Denzel,' 'Be a little more Wesley Snipes.'
Leslie Odom, Jr.
What goes up must come down; I'm not going to be in 'Hamilton' forever. Everything I work on won't have this kind of success.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, they got me a tape recorder that I used to walk around my life with. And there was something about recording and then hearing myself back.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
We don't get to get swept up, because we have to start over every day at 8 o'clock.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Nothing lasts forever in my profession.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I want to know that I'm gonna knock 'em dead every night.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
I grew up in Philadelphia.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?
Leslie Odom, Jr.
You can't judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do.
Leslie Odom, Jr.
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