John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.
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I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.
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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
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You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.
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I'd like to do some female roles again.
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Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.
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I've seen things change and people forget: the history of Berlin, the history of queer struggle, the history of AIDS, the history of New York changing from an artistic powerhouse to more of a financial one now.
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I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock.
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I like all kinds of input.
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Getting the blood moving through your body does do wonders for your complexion.
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In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.
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Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.
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'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.
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I think it helped me like myself more, playing Hedwig.
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I never even had a MySpace.
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The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.
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Compared to other liberal cities like San Francisco and Amsterdam, New Yorkers are always trying to do something, make art or love or money or whatever, and they have this phobia about standing still.
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Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.
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If you go for the money first and try to think of what other people want to see, you change your original inspiration and perhaps put out something that's less original and less personal and maybe less satisfying.
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I like the fact that it's like The Ramones. You just have to change your name, and you're a Ramone. You just have to put the wig on, and you're Hedwig. Women have played it. Gay men, straight men, you know.
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Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
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Coming out as a gay man, it was very much about finding my own identity and dealing with labeling.
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The best things happen in the dark.
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If I wanted to make a lot of money with 'Hedwig,' I could have spent all my time on it. But that's boring.