Jason Mantzoukas Quotes

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Jason Mantzoukas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 18, 1972

Topics

FamilyDanceManChildPeopleSong

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

John Masefield

ManWantPraiseMaySomethingMade

Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them.

Maurice Sendak

BestEnjoyGoKnowWhyUp

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Jean Paul

WorthYouMouthProveActionsYour

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

John Travolta

YourselfPeopleDecisionsYouMade

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

DanceGrowing UpWorldGrowingBig

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Tom Drury

CharacterBestBuildingSmallYou

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

Ruben Blades

MusicBandSoundDancingOwnPretty

For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.

Mirai Nagasu

CultureAmazingAmericanEvolve

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

Jon Gruden

PeopleForgetExtraordinaryNaked

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

Deryck Whibley

DayGreenInfluenceMoreBlinkThan

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

Dominic Monaghan

MomentMeYouLookAnimalsWild

I don't think we ever know 100 percent of a person, even ourselves, but I think in families, you get closer to people's secrets and people's darkness - and their light, the full contrast of a person.

Derek Cianfrance

LightDarknessPeopleThinkYouGet

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