Quotes from Jason Mitchell

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's going to be super dope, definitely funny. They're so great, and they've been such life coaches to me.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

I auditioned for 'Pitch Perfect,' and I had to sing. It was terrible.

I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.

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.

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.

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.

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.

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.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

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.

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.

I've got a friendly smile, a greeting smile, and a you-know-exactly-what-I'm-thinking smile.

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.

You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

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.

'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.