Jordan Fisher Quotes

We got to see Sondheim shows, 'Phantom of the Opera,' 'Cats' and all sorts of stuff. When you're 10 or 11 years old, it's just magnificent. The story-telling, the music - it lifts you out of your seat.

I've memorized 'Hamilton.'

You hear a song like 'Wait For It,' you hear a song like 'Dear Theodosia' - if you get one of those songs in a musical - one - it's worth dropping everything to sing that one song.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

I spent summers in my room listening to cast albums, like 'Les Miserables,' every night. I knew it backwards and forwards. I want to be the first black Jean Valjean.

I love musicals. I grew up on musicals.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.

I did 'Eubie!' on Broadway with the Hines brothers, 'Comin' Uptown' with Gregory Hines, and then 'Hairspray.'

I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

My senior year, I got to play Maureen in 'Rent,' and I had more fun than I'd ever had in my life.

I'm obsessed with 'Hamilton.' I've seen it, like, three times, and if I could get a weekly pass, I would.

I remember as a student going to Covent Garden, where they took out the stall seats and you hunkered down on the floor - I heard Pavarotti in Tosca there, and the experience of being in that same room with that astonishing voice has never left me.

Broadway is such a beautiful community, both with the people who do it and the people who go see it.

When I saw 'Hamilton,' it changed my life. It's one of the most beautiful things I saw on stage.

'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

I can only imagine what the show would have meant to me as a 16- or 17-year-old. I know what 'Rent' meant to me in my life, how that show changed the course of my life, and we can only hope that 'Hamilton' will have the same effect on a few kids.

It takes a damn village to get a show on Broadway!

I feel like with 'On the Town,' it was the perfect production and the perfect opportunity.

Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.

'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam.

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.