Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.
Quotes to Explore
-
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
-
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
-
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
-
I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
-
I like seeing girls throw down.
-
'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
-
Courage is found in unlikely places.
-
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
-
Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
-
I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
-
Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
-
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
-
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
-
As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
-
I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
-
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
-
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
-
In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
-
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.
-
A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'
-
Thus in a pageant-show a plot is made;And peace itself is war in masquerade.
-
I don't even think about fame at all.
-
People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.
-
I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented - to me, and most actors that I've talked to - an artistic award. It means you're an artist and not just a popular performer.
