Aasif Mandvi Quotes

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

Aasif Mandvi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: March 5, 1966

Topics

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What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Jerome Cavanagh

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I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

Andy Serkis

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The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

Mia Kirshner

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I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times.

Stephen Amell

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Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.

Stacey Dash

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Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero, maybe ever, because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it's puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way.

Tom Holland

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I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.

Tom Steyer

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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Robin Marantz Henig

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Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Robin Wright

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The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.

Mike Crapo

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You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Joni Mitchell

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The way to have power is to take it.

Boss Tweed

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