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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

Ice, Good Way, Goodman, Legend

I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.

- Jason Mitchell

Love, Big, Mayonnaise, Mustard

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.

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My Life, Violent, Very, Good Opportunity

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.

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Young, Through, Lord, Ladies

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.

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Hang, Everybody, Very, Accent

I was the epitome of rags to riches.

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Epitome, Riches, Rags

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.

- Jason Mitchell

Life, Two, Been, Low-Key

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

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Bad, Separate, Had, New Orleans

Growing up in New Orleans helped me live a real life. I experienced so many things.

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New, Real, Many, Orleans

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

Young, Quick, Had, Orleans

As crazy as it may sound, it's like my tranquil place, where I sit, and I have my candy for a minute, and I just space out, and it's just me and my candy.

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Candy, Like, May, Tranquil

I've done history; I've done biopics, I've done a little bit of comedy. I just want to keep going and show people that you can't typecast me, you can't pigeonhole me.

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Comedy, Want, Going, Typecast

'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.

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Like, About, No Choice, Just Something

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

Thought, Career, I Think, Train

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

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People, Capable, Say, Acting School

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.

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Gift, Reason, Being, Understood

I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.

- Jason Mitchell

Actor, Through, Pages, Continuously

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York.

- Jason Mitchell

Birthday, New, Rhymes, DiCaprio

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.

- Jason Mitchell

Friendship, Bring, About, Lessons

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

Black, Both Sides, Other, Apart

I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

- Jason Mitchell

Practice, Kid, Becoming, Ninja

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.

- Jason Mitchell

Gift, Always, Been, Surprised

I worked as a cook before starting acting.

- Jason Mitchell

Cook, Before, Worked, Starting

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

Through, Some, Like, Tragic

Anybody who knows me knows that I'm just here to put a smile on people's faces.

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Me, Here, Anybody, Faces

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.

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Down, Certain Way, Lot, Accent

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.

- Jason Mitchell

My Life, Play, Through, Slip

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

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Chance, Got, About, To Be Honest

We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.

- Jason Mitchell

Start, Making, Cut, Homophobic

I lived the street life for a minute; I lost a lot of friends.

- Jason Mitchell

Lost, Street, Lot, Minute

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