W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

After that I got an agent and went on like a million auditions. You win some, you lose some.

Everyone appreciates being appreciated!

I like to see what happens to people when they're thrown into really crappy situations. I think it's really interesting to watch what decisions they make, how they deal with the feelings they have.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

I feel very lucky and very blessed. I just hope that I can keep doing my job and that people keep liking what I do and that the opportunities continue. That's the best that I can hope for.

I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can do.

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

I loved something I made up

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

The happiest days are when babies come.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I will think about that tomorrow!

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.