Brian Stokes Mitchell

Variety is the key to not being bored.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I wouldn't call what I do 'dance.'

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

My job as an entertainer is to give a great show.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I like being different people.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I love being outside, and I love the fresh air.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I was practically raised with Christmas music.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I am always looking for the next show.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I love seeing the stars, and I love being around my friends and family.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I like to sing the songs people love, like 'Impossible Dream.'

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

People in the performing arts have a lot of other skills they don't realize they can utilize, and part of what the…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I can count on one hand the number of conductors-composers-arrangers that I enjoy working with, and at the top of that list…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I always call myself the luckiest actor in the world because I made a living solely as a performer from the time…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Everybody comes to the planet with certain gifts. It may be writing, it may be acting, it may be singing, it may…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Something is guiding my career; I don't know what it is. When I look back at my career, I call myself the…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I started out on the stage, then I had a great career in television for quite a few years. The good news…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I love rethinking and reimagining songs.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I can't remember ever not singing.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

You need raw talent to be successful.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Doing eight shows a week is hard.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell