Jason Mantzoukas Quotes
People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.
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So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.
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People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.
