Mena Massoud Quotes
Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
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Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
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The division of the world into two mutually exclusive camps - the City of War and the City of Faith - lies at the heart of Islam's traditional view of existence. Places where Islam rules supreme and its laws are strictly obeyed are known as Dar al-Iman or the City of Faith. The rest of the world is signified under the title of Dar al-Harb or the City of War.
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When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
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Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.
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Canada's a small market. I think sometimes we do too much of supporting American stories in Hollywood and not enough supporting our own.
