John Cameron Mitchell Quotes

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

~ John Cameron Mitchell

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

There's something cool about being a stealth classic.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy... individual versus society. There was a weird seduction in that, which I still feel.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'

~ John Cameron Mitchell

My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool about it.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.

~ John Cameron Mitchell

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

~ John Cameron Mitchell