John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

My favorite model of success is when people say, 'Nobody bought that first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did started a band.'

John Cameron Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1963

Topics

SuccessPeopleNobodySayFirst

If my teammates are out there to hoop, I'm going. I see the way these guys prepare for games. How can you not want to go be a part of that?

Jimmy Butler

YouGoTeammatesWantGamesWay

When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.

Jesse Watters

CityPlantsSeriousDoneStreet

Everything is a reaction.

Robyn Hitchcock

ReactionEverything

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Jon Stewart

LiveHeartHellComedyYouFix

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Don Rickles

KnowledgeDoingTryingFirstStarted

I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.

Dennis Edwards

GodOpportunityMeWorldThank God

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

Concha Buika

HairLovedHoustonLikeMadonna

People should be more passive with what they consider trustworthy.

Ariel Pink

PeopleMoreTrustworthyPassive

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

Arvind Gupta

FoodThinkingIndustryGlobalMarket

Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.

William Julius Wilson

LearningMeBlackYouWhiteWill

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Susanna Kearsley

HomeChildrenLibrarySaturdayAunt

'Pierrot le Fou' is something I keep coming back to. It's so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

Shane Carruth

LandscapeBackWithinComingWell

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