John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
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My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.
