John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Working with special needs children is hard.
-
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.
-
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
-
It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
-
I'm very strange, I'm not going to 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.
-
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.
-
When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
-
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?
-
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
-
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
-
We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
-
I am a fiscal conservative.
-
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.
-
Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
-
Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.
-
If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
-
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;Legions of angels can't confine me there.
-
Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you.
-
The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
-
We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
