John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Different
  • Think
  • Understanding

• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Prosperity
  • Measure
  • Bear

• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Strange
  • Going
  • Lie

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • I Can
  • Hear

• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
  • Chocolate

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • World
  • Bad
  • Mother

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Find
  • Dogs

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Fun
  • Laugh
  • Watch

• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Guardian
  • Chemist
  • Perchance

• I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Work
  • Play

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Emotions
  • Prey

• I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Mother

• There are certain actors you watch in a movie, and you think, 'Wow, that guy is very skilled.'

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Movie
  • Guy

• There are enough forces in the world that are afraid of our strength, “our hugeness,” as one of our sovereigns said. So, they seek to divide us into parts, this is a well-known fact. Look at what they did with Yugoslavia: they cut it into small pieces and are now manipulating everything that can be manipulated there, which is almost anything. Apparently, someone would like to do the same with us...

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Enough
  • Look

• Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Language

• We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell