"I don't know that I've ever had the privilege and opportunity of playing a character who is not only so innately good, but is on a deep and rigorous journey to find and to be the best version of him possible."
"So I hope this piece doesn't give permission, but acceptance, to people. Hopefully see themselves and feel seen."
"I knew that my future was probably in the theater and I had to pack up and go back to Broadway. That was a great decision I made, thank God."
"There's always an idea of streaming against the mainstream. From there you find your own identity, you find your own truth, your find your own individuality. That's always something that consciously or unconsciously was something that was always a part of my makeup. "
"That's really why he is the, quote unquote bad guy, simply because he's the outsider in this community."
"My hope as we continue to foster the artwork in terms of the organization that Ballet Hispánico is poised to be a voice. At one time we were fighting to be at the table. Now we have to create the table and invite everyone to come in."
"There's all sorts of things that I thought I would be that I'm not. And I have made my peace with all that. But I still want to have dinner with Mel Brooks and be in Tyler Perry movies."
"I honestly think that there is nothing more gaslighting than this opera. Even the orchestra speaks for her before she can."
"I've always felt like you can understand the moment you're having in your life better when you're in conversation with people who are all at different moments in their lives."
"Chucho knows that to get the best out of somebody in his own work he has to give up a part of himself and let it pay forward to the next step of the process."