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.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
-
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
-
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.''
-
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.
-
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
-
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
-
It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
-
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.
-
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
-
I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
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.
-
I'm a Cheesehead.
-
I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?
-
I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.
-
You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.
-
My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
-
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
