Maz Jobrani Quotes

As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
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  • Old
  • Generation

• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • Learn

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
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  • Die
  • Listen

• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

  Sal Mineo
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  • Me
  • Next

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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  • You
  • Die

• In every movie I do have a dialogue.

  

  Jackie Chan
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  • Dialogue
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• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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  • Writing
  • Movie

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
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• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
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  • Family
  • Sports

• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

  

  Jim Renacci
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• Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
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• When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't know how you scared me!' These people are grown up. They say, 'When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep at night.' Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby.

  

  Betsy Palmer
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• I'm into 'House of Cards.' 'Breaking Bad' - my God, did I binge on that!

  

  Carol Burnett
  • God
  • Bad
  • House

• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach
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• As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

  

  Maz Jobrani
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  • Die