John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.
Quotes to Explore
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
-
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
-
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
-
Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
-
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
-
Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
-
My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
-
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
-
In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
-
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
-
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
-
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
-
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
-
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
-
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
-
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
-
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
-
I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.
-
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
-
I am just touched at how strongly the real Hed-heads feel. It feels different from other kinds of devotees; maybe it's the way I felt with certain bands when I was a kid. It feels like a band more than a play.
