Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 16
Actor
Composer
Film Director
Librettist
Lyricist
Playwright
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Translator
Washington Heights
New York
LMM
Call
Wells
Well
Dyslexic
Hello
Name
Names
More quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda
I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Once George Washington said, I have to step down the so the country can move on.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].
Lin-Manuel Miranda
With every word, I drop knowledge.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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
It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I read reviews, I'm not going to lie to y'all. Like you know, I'll read 'em, but then, the next day I'm able to sort of shrug them off. But if something sort of sticks the next day, there's probably something to it. I just sort of really try to trust my gut on, on all that stuff.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Disney's really incredible on story.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
No one wants to hear me crooning a ballad.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I feel like style is like accent. You don't hear it on yourself, and then everyone's like, man, you got a strong accent.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via Skype, with the creative team, at five p.m., and then I would have my seven o'clock curtain.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I got to holler just to be heard.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful Disney musicals, and so, the fact that I got to interview with Ron [Clements] and John [Musker], who directed The Little Mermaid, I was, like, I just walked in and said, You're the reason I'm even here.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
