Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I followed a girl I met in Japan to Los Angeles and ended up working in a motorcycle store. I quit the job one night, went to a party in the Hollywood Hills and ended up yelling at a bunch of people. Someone saw me yelling and asked me to be in a play. The first night, there was an agent in the audience who took me on and sent me out for jobs.

I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.

I think about my own career, and when I graduated from college, the Internet didn't really exist yet. And so not having a specific plan, being able to be opportunistic at the end, is what enabled me to make some of my best decisions, which is to go to places that were growing but that I didn't plan to have happen.

As far as what teams need and what I need, I'm open to anything a team has to say about how they envision me in their future.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

I am ready to do any kind of role.

I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.

I feel like if you can do multiple things, you shouldn't shy away from them.

I am not concentrating on any industry but just taking up good offers, which gives me scope to perform.

I'm not one to turn down opportunities.

I believe that if you want to exist on TV, you should be open to doing anything and everything.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised.

We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.