Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
-
I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
-
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
-
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
-
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
-
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
-
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
-
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
-
I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
-
People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
-
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
-
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
-
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
-
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
-
Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
-
The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
-
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
-
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
-
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
-
I love to write.
-
It would feel like a smack in the face to sign with any label outside of Dre's. He took a risk on me, and that means everything.
-
At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.
-
I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.
-
There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid to feed.
