A biography for Jason Mitchellhasn’t been written yet.
“I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.”
“You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.”
“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.”
“I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.”
“I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.”
“Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.”
“I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.”
“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.”
“I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.”
“The worst thing in the world is telling yourself you can't do something.”
“'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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was the epitome of rags to riches.”
“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'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.”