Quotes from Dash Mihok

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

A lot of us have done bullying and didn't even realize we did it.

One of my favorite movies is 'Some Like It Hot,' which isn't really a musical, but I'm just such a sucker for old movies. I wouldn't want to ever tarnish one of them, or do a spot-on remake, but just do something light like that where I get to glide across the floor. I would be a very happy camper.

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

School was very difficult. I was conscious of how I looked.

A lot of talented people have some quirks, y'know? And bless them for that. I'd rather have Tourette's than be someone boring.

It's very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There's not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they're suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.

Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.

In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'

To have someone inspire you to be who you are and be unapologetic about it, it's beautiful.