Colman Domingo Quotes

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

Art helped give me confidence.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I was a very shy kid. Very shy. But I started doing theatre when I was six years old, and that really changed something. My more playful side came out of me.

Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.

There's times when I'm really shy, so these roles that I get to play, they're how I would love to really be. And that's why I love doing stand-up, because it gives me the freedom to say what I really want to say. I think that's why it's my favorite thing to do.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My music was the only place I could be me for the longest time.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

I was painfully shy, so my aunt suggested to my mum that me and my brother go to Stage 84, a performing arts school in Yorkshire. I've probably romanticised it in my head, but I seem to remember that in the space of an hour's drama workshop, I was transformed. I went in really shy, and I came out full of confidence.

I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Writing is a great love of mine.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.