Aasif Mandvi Quotes

I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

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• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

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• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

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• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

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• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

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• I am an ordinary person.

  

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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

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• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

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• As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

  

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• I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

  

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• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

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• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

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• My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.

  

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• In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

  

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• I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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