John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

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• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Best
  • Worry

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Movie

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Me

• I do not like violence.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Like
  • Violence

• I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • First
  • Everyone

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Military

• I cannot live anywhere else except India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Live
  • India
  • Else

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Jesus

• I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Bad
  • High
  • Heels

• I am healthy. I have been blessed with a very good body, and I have worked hard at it. I had surgery on my toe, and I'm still recovering from that. That's the only joint that was hurting. Earlier, I had a knee replacement, hip replacement, shoulder surgeries, but I have been lucky. I don't feel any pain when I play.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Blessed

• The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

  

  Paul Anka
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Technology

• Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• You cannot look at someone and say they are unhealthy. You are not a doctor, and if you were, you'd realize why that's silly.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Why
  • Silly

• All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to 'Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Question
  • Silly
  • Philosophical

• There are a lot of silly projects out there.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Silly