Aasif Mandvi Quotes

The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.

Aasif Mandvi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkCharacterGreatWritingActing

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

Joan Ganz Cooney

ChildrenTreeSometimesStreetTeach

Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

John Ensign

MedicalDoctorLawyerRepublican

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

Mia Maestro

CharacterPersonalitySchoolYouNew

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

Robbie Robertson

TimePlayRockLondonRollOnly

You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

Michiel Huisman

YouNeverJustInsaneOnceScene

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.

Michael Moore

VoteOfficeHimAgainstHeGore

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

Chauncey Wright

KnowMayDistinguishMeansHowEnds

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

Chris Martin

PeopleBandSome PeopleVentureJust

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Anthony Bourdain

LifeWorkDisciplineFocusMeKind

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

Allison Anders

PeopleLovedWeekendMouthNobody

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Piers Corbyn

DieYouKnowYearsOutUsed

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Philippe Petit

LifeWorldMy LifeWantMoviesOut

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