Maz Jobrani Quotes
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
