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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• 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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• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

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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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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

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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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• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

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• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

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• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

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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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• My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.

  

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• With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so. You think you're sucking on a sweetie, but it turns out to be a sugar-coated chili.

  

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• My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

  

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  • Time
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• I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

  

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  • People
  • Childhood
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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.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Lawyer