John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

John Cameron Mitchell

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• I never left doo wop.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Left

• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • Good
  • Reading

• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Discussion

• If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • You
  • Will
  • Intellectual

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Listening

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

  

  Karen O
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Good
  • Education
  • Theatre

• We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Being
  • Inside
  • U.S.

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Artist
  • White

• The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • True
  • Feel

• Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

  

  Jill Lepore

• Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • Important
  • Why
  • Support

• Drag is a little scary, especially for a gay man who's not comfortable with his feminine side.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Gay
  • Scary