A biography for Tituss Burgesshasn’t been written yet.
“I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.”
“I hover closer to earth than I do the clouds.”
“I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV.”
“The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and allowed me to come in.”
“There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of a masculine, heterosexual world. That is the backdrop with which we measure the man.”
“I will work for Tina Fey forever.”
“Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.”
“This is a fickle industry. Here today, gone tomorrow. I don't want to spend all the time reflecting. I want to spend it doing.”
“The issue with race particularly within this country is largely because of lack of dialogue.”
“One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it.”
“On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.”