“I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I'v...” — Leslie Odom Quote

“I've been involved with 'Hamilton' for about two and a half years. I've learned so much. I came into it a young man. Now I've dropped the 'young.'”

“You can't judge the people that you play anyway; you leave that for somebody else to do.”

“It's still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we're often fed - as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.”

“I think for a lot of us, you know, what 'Hamilton' gave us the opportunity to, what it gave me the opportunity to do, was to go, 'Here's what I've learned in 35 years.'”

“I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.”

“Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.”

“I was a wide receiver at the University of Missouri but dropped out, having never gotten in a game.”

“Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!”

“My parents reckoned it was worth giving acting a go, so I dropped out of college a few months in.”

“I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.”

“I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school.”

“Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.”