John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.
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The world is a force not a presence.
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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
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When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.
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Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.
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'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
