John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere. You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

Prince was unapologetically different, and he made it okay for his fans to be different and to celebrate their individuality. His social conscience challenged us to look deeper than the skin color of our neighbors.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

Glee's good because it tackles the issues by embracing what's different, and telling people, 'That's what makes you special' - I think that's the underlying thing.

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

I'm out here to represent the gingers, the gypsies, and the outcasts. Because I am all of the above, and I'm all about having a great time.

I feel at home in Shondaland. I feel a lot of things at Shondaland, but one of the things I feel that I haven't felt before is at home. I feel accepted for who I am and acknowledged for who I am. I feel like my ideas are embraced.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different.

I've used some of my differences as a way to stand out and to hopefully count and matter - and hopefully create an opportunity for others.