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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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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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 like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
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I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.
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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.
