Jason Mantzoukas Quotes
Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
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I love my band. I love to play. I love to write.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
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If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it.
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Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.
