Mena Massoud Quotes
All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.
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The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
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On the last day of my teaching career, I was sitting in my apartment, having a glass of wine, thinking I'm glad I did it, that I had been somehow useful, that I had learned something.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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All I want for my career is I want to work with the best directors and I want to be treated like a Caucasian man would be.
