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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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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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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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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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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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.
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I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
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I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.
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'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.
