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. Jason Mitchell Read Quote
You have to continue to smile through life. And it’s good when you get to bring that out in a character. Jason Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jason Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn’t realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all. Jason Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I didn’t really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life. Jason Mitchell Read Quote
