Janet Mock Quotes
As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.
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Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
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He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
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The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
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I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
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I have been on a diet since 1962.
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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
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As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
