Tituss Burgess

“I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep!”

“'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.”

“I can call up a friend and have them meet me for a drink in 20 minutes, and suddenly, the night unfolds into this glorious, uniquely New York situation. I wouldn't give it up for the world.”

“Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.”

“I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.”

“I tell you, my naps are epic. They win awards.”

“I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.”

“I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.”

“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.”

“I prayed fervently for a series regular job on a show that had the perceived caliber of talent that '30 Rock' had.”

“I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.”

“I've always been weird.”

“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.”

“I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.”

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

“I've always given attention to detail. I've always given my heart and soul into a lyric, into a line.”