Mitchell quotes from Being Human

Mitchell

I'm sensing a trip to IKEA. [Glares at George] And you know my feelings on that.

Mitchell

Where do I belong? Where do I fit? Who are my people? Where do my loyalties lie? We all choose our tribe. It's that need to belong, to live within boundaries, cause it's scary on the outside, on the fringes. Some labels are forced on us. They mock us, set us apart 'til we're like ghosts, drifting through other people's lives. But only if we let the labels hold. You can piss your whole life away trying out who you might be. It's when you've worked out who you are that you can really start to live.

Mitchell

I can't believe he's never heard of Laurel and Hardy! Immortality makes me feel so old.

Mitchell

[Sarcastically] The disembodied spirit of a dead woman is getting a job in the service industry. What could possibly go wrong?

Mitchell

Do you people have any FUCKING idea who I am!? My name is John Mitchell, and I've killed more people than you've met!

Mitchell

[To Lucy] You have such a reductive view on the world. You say God made man in His own image. But what if that included His rage, and His spite, and His indifference, and His cruelty? God created all of us, we are all God's children... but God's a bit of a bastard. [Smiles] Look at us both. Covered in other people's blood and talking about morality... but there's one difference between you and me: You had a choice.

Mitchell

It was Inch High Private Eye that led her here.

Mitchell

I've got this friend. He says the human condition, human nature, being human, is to be cold and alone. Like someone lost in the woods. It's safe to say he's a 'glass-is-half-empty' kind of guy.

Mitchell

When in Rome, stop killing the other Romans.

Mitchell

We've got work and then it's his time of the month.

Annie

Oh god, I used to hate that. Curl up on the sofa, Pride and Prejudice, if anyone said anything I'd bite their head off. Oh, God... that is actually a real possibility for you, isn't it... The, the biting...

Annie

Owen, your landlord, my fiancé. Ex-fiancé. He's coming round!

Mitchell

In about... now.

George

He's coming here? Why?

Mitchell

He's back from Saudi for a few months and wants to meet us.

Annie

Well you guys are his longest staying tenants. All the others have er... found it strangely unwelcoming.

George

[To Mitchell] Why didn't you put him off?!?

Mitchell

I tried! But she kicked me in the shin. The shin, George!

Annie

Okay, I've written a list of questions for you to ask him.

Mitchell

[Reading the list] 'Are you screwing Janey Harris?'

Annie

She always fancied him and believe me, if she knew when I died she'd have been here before the ambulance crew.

Mitchell

[Reading the list] 'Has my sister had a baby?' Awww...

Annie

They've been trying for ages. I blame her husband, his name's Robin and he works in a Post Office.

Mitchell

We can't just dip our toe! We have to dive into the churn of humanity. Laugh with them, listen to their stories.

George

About Vin Diesel?

Mitchell

A... remarkable man, I'm starting to realise...

Lauren

And the blood, Mitchell. Can you remember the taste? So rich and warm. You can have it again. As much as you want.

Mitchell

I can't, the cost is too high.

Lauren

Please! Who are you saving, really? Have you seen Britain's Got Talent?

George

This has to stop. I cannot do another conversation about Vin Diesel.

Mitchell

You just need to get him onto another subject.

George

I've tried! Leonard Cohen, Darcy Bussell - it's like he isn't interested.