Adrian Mitchell Quotes

When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.

That's why I think life is so incredible, right? Anything is possible. You can be one way one day, and then you can have one experience that could be tiny-itty-bitty or big, and it can shift your whole focus and your whole life.

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

I do think that the birth of my daughter was sort of a rebirth for me. It made me look at life in a completely new way. And that made me appreciate life in a way I don't think I ever had before.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

We read so that we can be moved by a new way of looking at things.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.

My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

You instinctively know that nothing will ever be the same, and you have to carry that knowledge around with you like a huge weight. The next time you see your girl, you can’t look her straight in the eyes the same way you did for all those years.