Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

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• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• I boxed 15 years in a club.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Years
  • Club
  • Boxed

• I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Experience

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • True
  • Car

• At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • Father
  • Day

• I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Films
  • Managing

• I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Work
  • Me
  • Shape

• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Doing
  • Films
  • Prefer

• My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Job
  • Myself

• It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Good
  • You
  • Question

• If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Love
  • Minutiae

• 'The Shining' scares me so much.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Shining
  • Scares

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg
  • Party

• It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?

  

  Katherine Rundell
  • Birds
  • Thousand
  • Charles

• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Water
  • Car
  • Enough

• Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Power

• White girls tell me Hey Nicki your camp rules! Is that why you get more head than shampoos?

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Bragging

• If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell