John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I spent all of my twenties doing theater in a little 50-seat theater with my friends.

Theater is about life, not about television or movies.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.

I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Acting is a mysterious process.

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.