“I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At t...” — Leslie Odom Quote

“I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.”

“We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.”

“I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.”

“I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!”

“I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.”

“The only reason to keep talking about history is if you are juxtaposing it with the world that we live in today, if you are learning something about our world by looking at the way they shaped their world.”

“It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'”

“I can remember when I was 24, and I broke up with my first serious girlfriend for the first time. She was a very nice person, but she had a little bit of a tendency toward melodrama... Her response was to take the key to my apartment off of her key chain and hand it back to me.”

“Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.”

“If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.”

“I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.”