Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
-
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
-
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
-
Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
-
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
-
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
-
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
-
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
-
There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
-
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
-
One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
-
Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
-
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
-
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
-
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
-
Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.
-
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
-
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
-
I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.
