Lin-Manuel Miranda famous quotes

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Everyday

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Writing #Play #Guy

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Thinking #Decision #Trying

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Success Or Failure

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Past #Expectations #Action

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Growing Up #School #Kids

I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Hip Hop #Hips #Middle

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Distance #Want #Seems

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Dog #Thinking #Ideas

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Country #Hungry #Shots

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Goal #Trying #Coal

I think you balance the things you've been dying to do all your life. And the opportunities that come along, that you didn't maybe think of, that are so amazing, that you'd kick yourself if you didn't try to be a part of them.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Opportunity #Thinking #Balance

When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#People #Listening #Ears

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Teenager #Important

I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write it, you're like, "Oh I kind of got past the sell by date on this." I'm not connected to the initial spark that was the idea. A lot of that's about staying open.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Writing #Past #Thinking

I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that people attached to it. It's the thing itself, and so, as you know, it's been a dream of mine to write songs for Disney, and so, it's really exciting to finally hear. It's two and a half years.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Dream #Song #Art

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Book #Shocked #History Books

The theater should always be a safe space.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Space #Safe #Should

I am the epitome of coolness.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Epitome #Coolness

You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know people travel across the country to see you. In a lot of cases, this is that audience's only chance to see the thing, and so, that's what gets you up in the morning, and that's what gets you giving your best performance on stage, is the awareness that this audience is ready for it, and here to have an experience, and so in turn are you.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Country #Morning #Inspiration

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#New York #Cities #America

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Song #Party #Ocean

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.
-- Lin-Manuel Miranda

#Giving #Performers