Aasif Mandvi Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.
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Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
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How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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The fact is, employees cannot make breakthroughs if they can't openly and honestly disagree with their peers and their leader. Indeed, great leaders don't just permit conflict; they actively try to elicit it from reluctant employees as well.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
