American - Actor | October 31, 1957 -
When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
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I'm having a ball on 'Glee.' It's a joy to be working there - the whole cast is so talented.
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At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
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I love rethinking and reimagining songs.
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'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.
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I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time I left home at 17 years old.
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The older I get, I realize, 'Man, I'm a very rare bird,' and that's not because of necessarily my talent or ability; it so much depends on luck and just the grace of the universe.
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I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
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I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
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If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.
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I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.
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