Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Hate Copy Share Image
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Father Copy Share Image
If you can make an audience laugh, you can make them love any character. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Audience Copy Share Image
When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love seeing the stars, and I love being around my friends and family. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
'Ragtime' is about how we get through ugliness, how we talk together, work together, get through it together. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
When I was preparing 'Kiss Me, Kate,' I did go to the Museum of Broadcasting and watched an old kinescope of Alfred… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Kiss Copy Share Image
I've always felt that my career was in wiser hands than mine. Whatever, in its good time, is supposed to happen will… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Career Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
I love doing theater. It's what I grew up in and is my roots. I get a huge fulfillment from it. But… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Fulfillment Copy Share Image
I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Broadway Copy Share Image
I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
Each time I have performed in Utah, I had a great time, and the audiences seem to enjoy what I do. The… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
For a while, I couldn't get arrested in television because everybody thought of me as that guy on 'Trapper John.' So I… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Audience Copy Share Image
The thing about doing concerts is that it's doing a live show. It's on my schedule. It's songs I want to sing.… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Concert Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop singer; I'm not a jazz singer. And I know I sing like not a whole lot of people… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Acting Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
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 Acting Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Appreciation Copy Share Image
There's a lot of risk involved in acting, and you can't take the same kind of risks when you have a kid… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Acting Copy Share Image
I like to sing the songs people love, like 'Impossible Dream.' — Brian Stokes Mitchell Dream Copy Share Image
I love the theater, and I just don't love television like that. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Indian Copy Share Image
You lose more than you win in life, and that's OK. That's the nature of life. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My family's very, very mixed. I am, I guess, a kind of melting pot in a person. — Brian Stokes Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate in my career to play a lot of lead roles. The downside to that is I don't have… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is a built-in appreciation for music that is so much a part of the LDS culture. Utahns know that music can… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Appreciation Copy Share Image
I love rearranging and reimagining tunes, so I want my audience to enjoy hearing songs in a new way and make their… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I studied film scoring and orchestration and conducting and arranging in my twenties, and I scored a lot of television shows and… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Film Copy Share Image
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 Actor Copy Share Image
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 Actor Copy Share Image
