Quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda

“[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.”

“[WASHINGTON]Its alright, you want to fight, youve got a hungerI was just like you when I was youngerHead full of fantasies of dyin like a martyr?[HAMILTON]Yes[WASHINGTON]Dying is easy, young man. L...”

“[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

“I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”

“The past places no absolute limit on the future.”

“Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity”

“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”

“Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.”

“Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the Im a Fraud phase. You go through the Ill Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually h...”

“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemi...”

“My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us...”

“One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, an...”

“I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.”

“Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just lis...”

“In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.”

“History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.”

“I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented in a way that's even close to honest. And I can tell you that the amount of Latino characters I c...”

“We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.”

“[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.”

“Why do you write like you're running out of time?”