Aasif Mandvi Quotes

I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

Aasif Mandvi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

Jenny Lewis

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When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

Jen Sincero

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I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'

Andy Biersack

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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was the first real adult book I ever read, and it opened a new world.

Stellan Skarsgard

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If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.

Robin Wright

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One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

Jared Harris

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I'd see my daddy about once a month, and I missed him. I would have loved to have had more of him. He was tall, attractive and very quiet, very gentle. He had a wife who I don't think ever really liked me much.

Cherie Lunghi

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Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Chubby Checker

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When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

Bob Geldof

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