John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
-
Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
-
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
-
I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
-
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
-
I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
-
I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
-
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
-
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
-
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
-
You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
-
We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
-
Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
-
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
-
I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
-
I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
-
The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
-
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
-
Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?
-
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
-
I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.
-
I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.
-
The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.
-
I never even had a MySpace.
