Said Sayrafiezadeh Quotes
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Quotes to Explore
-
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
-
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
-
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
-
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
-
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
-
When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
-
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
-
Smoke machines are the best!
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
-
Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
-
Your belief system saturates the space around you.
-
My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
-
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
-
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
-
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
-
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
-
People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
-
If you sense there must be more, there is more.
-
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.
-
There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.
-
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
-
'True Detective' did change my career.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
