103 Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay guys at some point are told that that's the worst part of you, so that becomes a negative thing.

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I might have become a monk if I hadn't come out.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

New York is so unique, and you are not always encouraged to consider the people in the city your neighbors because of the fast pace and surface anonymity.