John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

I've learned a lot over the years, but I am an honest person, and when I'm not happy, I can't fake a smile. If there is a problem, you will know straight away because you will see it on my face.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

We're a pretty open-book family; we kind of lead with our hearts. There's nothing to hide.

A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up.

People ask me about past projects I've worked on, and other things; I'm just really bad at lying. I have a bad poker face, so I just try to tell people how I'm feeling in the moment and really what I was trying to do.

I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

I have always said what is in my heart.