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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
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I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.
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My grandfather was a very courageous man, and I consider myself very lucky because I have three powerful role models that will obviously influence my career choices when I am older.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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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.
