A biography for Christopher Jacksonhasn’t been written yet.
“One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.”
“Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story.”
“Well, theater is kind of my life blood. Not kind of - it is my life blood.”
“Tupac was the first artist that I really related to.”
“Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.”
“I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved.”
“I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.”
“I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.”
“There's only one Broadway and that's in New York City.”
“There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.”
“I consider it a great honor to be able to step on stage every night and do a show that people have paid money to see.”
“With television, you rarely get a response. You don't have an audience that you're in front of.”
“The emergence of social media in the Broadway fan's life - it's sort of a serendipitous thing for us and for a lot of shows. I always wonder what 'Rent' would've felt like through that lens.”
“I'd like to think of myself as an ambassador for Broadway.”
“I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.”
“I took a trip to D.C. before the Off Broadway production started, and one of the things that was really telling is that Hamilton has probably the smallest statue in all of the Mall area, and yet he's got the greatest monument of any of them because we're all walking around with him in our pockets.”
“I don't ever take a day 'off.' If I can't work, I won't work.”
“Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.”
“Well, I went to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy - I went to the conservatory - for acting.”
“The idea that you can make one speech or one movie, or express a thought or show the injustice of a particular time, you hope that it resonates, and you hope that resonance will last. You hope that it would create change.”