John Cameron Mitchell Quotes
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You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on - who have become iconic but were never really good actors.
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Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.
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I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.
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What's interesting is that some of the things I'm interested in talking about is a story which has to do with the second half of your life, which can be told through Hedwig's voice because she's older. If the timeline is consistent, she's as old as me.
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Neil Patrick Harris is a superman of entertainment.
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I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn't an easy place to be growing up gay.
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I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.
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I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.
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Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.
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I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.
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Nothing is a calling card. Everything is what you do. If you do it in order to get somewhere else, you're not actually doing it. If you're thinking, 'What is the weird thing I want to make with my friends?' money and other things will come later.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'
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I was brought up very Catholic, and the character of Tommy Gnosis got his name from there.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.
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Isn't it funny - why is it called a tennis bracelet? It doesn't seem very tennis, does it?
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I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.
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Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and Bea Arthur and Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal.
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Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
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I would love for 'Hedwig' to be in every tiny shopping mall so every freakish kid like I was can have a broadening experience.
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Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.
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'Hedwig' is unabashedly analog.
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I'm all for information diets, which are helpful for the mood and for the art.