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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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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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 don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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I have realized that you can close yourself off to life if you put walls up, but it's a difficult thing ... You can't see over, people can't see in, and you also can't see out. So I've gotten quite comfortable with just being unafraid. I keep saying the same thing: it's not about being fearless but really just embracing the fears and using them.
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It's pretty sad that when people see a guy buying flowers, they assume he's in trouble.
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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.
