Top 25 Jason Mitchell Quotes

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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around

I didn’t know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
Jason Mitchell
I’ve lived so much life as a young man. New Orleans, we got terms, and one’s like, ‘He jumped off the porch early.’ That’s kind of what happened to me. I had to grow up really quick.
Jason Mitchell
I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.
Jason Mitchell
‘Straight Outta Compton’ is not a story we didn’t know about or anything like that, but it’s just something that resonated really well… It had no choice but to explode.
Jason Mitchell
I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching ‘Ninja Turtles’ movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he’d make them practice backflips as punishment – and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.
Jason Mitchell
I eat a lot. I’m a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.
Jason Mitchell
I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It’s a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It’s not like if you’re white we can’t hang with you or anything like that. So it’s easy for us to call each other out on our things.
Jason Mitchell
If you get it right, it’s the most grand thing you could ever do. So many people let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to play Eazy-E could change my life.
Jason Mitchell
You can’t be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he’s great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.
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I’m from a very violent city. I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it’s good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.
Jason Mitchell
The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can’t do something.
Jason Mitchell
As crazy as it may sound, it’s like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it’s just me and my candy.
Jason Mitchell
Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
Jason Mitchell
I want to be able to speak to some real things.
Jason Mitchell
To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.
Jason Mitchell
I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it’s still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
Jason Mitchell
I’ve got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.
Jason Mitchell
I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.
Jason Mitchell
I’ve done history; I’ve done biopics, I’ve done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can’t typecast me, you can’t pigeonhole me.
Jason Mitchell
The skill set that I think we have as actors is so cool because they train you in ways that you never thought you’d be trained. And that’s skills that they can’t take back. So as you go further in your career, you can dump all these skills into things.
Jason Mitchell
History is history, and it has to be told, and with ‘Mudbound,’ it’s beautiful because you get to sit with both sides – the white and the black – and see where we meet each other at the end of the day and see where we tear each other apart.
Jason Mitchell
Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.
Jason Mitchell
I didn’t really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.
Jason Mitchell
John Goodman has such a good way of breaking the ice. He’s so good at being himself. A lot of people aren’t really good at that. He knows that he’s a legend. He knows that he’s one of the greatest.
Jason Mitchell
Anybody who knows me knows that I’m just here to put a smile on people’s faces.
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