Jason Mitchell Quotes
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You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.
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We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.
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I've lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one's like, 'He jumped off the porch early.' That's kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.
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The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.
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I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' and I had to sing. It was terrible.
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I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.
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Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
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I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.
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I want to be able to speak to some real things.
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I've done history; I've done biopics, I've done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can't typecast me, you can't pigeonhole me.
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I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.
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History is history, and it has to be told, and with 'Mudbound,' it's beautiful because you get to sit with both sides - the white and the black - and see where we meet each other at the end of the day and see where we tear each other apart.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
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I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.