Top 30 RJ Mitte Quotes

As a child, I was taught that you can achieve, and you can do anything you want.

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

My grandparents would take me out fishing in their boat once a week from when I was about two or three, growing up in in Texas and Louisiana. I loved it.

It’s difficult to learn to play these different disabled characters – Campbell in ‘Switched At Birth’ was paralysed from the waist down – but it’s nice to be able to step into their world and live in these characters’ shoes and to be able to play them, because it gives you a different look at life.

I’m always looking for roles to challenge me and ones which I’ll enjoy playing.

I would love to switch on my TV and see a disabled person talking about something they are genuinely interested in or acting out a part that doesn’t just focus on their impairment.

I’ve always treated money with respect, but I don’t really think about money – I try to avoid it, because I don’t like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

I hate being immobile.

A lot of people don’t want to hire disabled actors. They think you’re going to take twice as long over a shot, or they don’t want have to put up a ramp for disabled access. They think, ‘Why would I do that when I can just hire an able-bodied actor to play the disabled character?’

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.’ That’s all they hear. But you have to look past that.

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don’t have much contact with him.

Breaking Bad’ gave me a career. It gave me more work than I could possibly imagine – I started filming it when I was 14 years old, and I finished when I was turning 21.

When it comes to money, I provide for my family, and that’s important to me.

I work with amazing organisations: I work with I’m A Performer With Disability, and I work with a clinic which tries to get opportunities for people with disabilities to work in the film and TV industry, and we’re making strides, and they’re making strides.

I wouldn’t say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don’t have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

I’m actually very active.

I like to work.

Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.

The more you travel, the more well-off you’ll be, I think.

Nothing I do will ever compare with ‘Breaking Bad.’

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

I didn’t know anything was wrong with me when I was growing up. I thought everyone went to occupational and speech therapy, I thought these were common things. I thought I was quite normal until I went to school and someone told me it wasn’t normal to have a disability.

‘Breaking Bad’ – I’ve heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It’s when someone can’t… when a decent person can’t take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

We know lots of progress is being made, but the industry must do more to help disabled people work both in front of and behind the camera.

I say, ‘You can never use excuses because they always run out.’

I have my real name and RJ. I’ve gone by RJ since I was eight, but I was named Roy after my grandfather. They called me Little Roy, which sounded like Leroy with a Texas accent, but my mom didn’t want to have a Leroy as a son, so it went to RJ.

I want to get my Masters in business.

I personally don’t like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that – my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.