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

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I&#...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competitio...
RACHEL BROSNAHAN
People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's ...
LESLIE BIBB
A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespa...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE
The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospe...
BIG BOI
As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other ba...
ROSS BUTLER
The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see...
LIAM HEMSWORTH
Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, ps...
DIRK BENEDICT
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
JOHN BOYNE
People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don'...
KASKADE
Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.
LAMAR ODOM
I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I...
WALE
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that ...
DON CHEADLE
I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.
DUSTIN DIAMOND
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don&...
JAIME PRESSLY
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson r...
GENE WILDER
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.
DAVID FINCHER
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back...
DANA BRUNETTI
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much....
ADAM SANDLER
It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it'...
GINA HOLDEN
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU
I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anythin...
JUSTIN VERNON
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants...
TREY GOWDY
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h...
JACK WHITE
It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de...
DYLAN WALSH
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
MUHAMMAD ALI
I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everyt...
KEKE PALMER
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, ...
WARREN BEATTY
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that ...
DANICA PATRICK
Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no pa...
MAURICE SENDAK
That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to bl...
RAY NITSCHKE
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly fo...
DAVE MCCLURE
When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th...
GREG RUSEDSKI
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You k...
NANCY REAGAN
I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
MANOLO BLAHNIK
If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There a...
KEVIN HASSETT
A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, 'I don't want to ...
PENN JILLETTE
When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ...
ATO ESSANDOH
I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes...
ARUNDHATI ROY
We are chained, but you just don't realise it...
DEYTH BANGER
It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ...
DONNA SHALALA
I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they'...
ALEXA CHUNG
Let's be clear: no one is forced into hazing. If you don't want to be hazed, don't join ...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS
If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It&...
CAROL BARTZ
There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA
I don't run on the treadmill, because there's no treadmill moving for you on the soccer fiel...
CARLI LLOYD
It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't g...
DAVID FINCHER
Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.
ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN
A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard ...
GONG LI
I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a cert...
PAIGE VANZANT
If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'...
ALAN ARKIN
There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't ge...
JOEL OSTEEN
I don't have children, and I don't want children.
LAVERNE COX
I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do t...
CAITLYN JENNER
Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don&...
VANILLA ICE
I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfact...
SETH ROGEN
I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam'...
ESTHER ROLLE
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt ...
AARON RODGERS
People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and ju...
LAURA MARLING
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then ...
LAURYN HILL
My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY
It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.
JACQUES VILLENEUVE
I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.
ROLLIE FINGERS
Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what...
SHIA LABEOUF
One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read '...
JACK MCBRAYER
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no di...
PATTI LABELLE
You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI
We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.
REX TILLERSON
I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but...
J. R. SMITH
Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to...
COLIN KAEPERNICK
Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#...
BABE RUTH
Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residen...
TADAO ANDO
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't sa...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE
In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take ...
ANDREW BOGUT
Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.
EVAN DAUGHERTY
I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their pare...
BETH MOORE
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend t...
ROBYN HITCHCOCK
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads y...
TIM MCGRAW
I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide ...
SUSAN CAIN
I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some...
CAM
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get t...
MARIO WILLIAMS
I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t...
BRION JAMES
I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER
There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do...
KENNY BAKER
I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
HAMID KARZAI
There are indeed people with ulterior motives who don't wish Chinese swimming well; they even do...
SUN YANG
I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I&#...
CATHERINE TATE
I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl str...
ZOE KRAVITZ
If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonali...
EUGENE H. PETERSON
I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.
KARL PILKINGTON
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't wa...
VANESSA HUDGENS
I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel li...
DANA DELANY
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
MIKE TYSON
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't h...
SAMANTHA MORTON

More Aasif Mandvi

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the...
AASIF MANDVI
I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater studen...
AASIF MANDVI
Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That chi...
AASIF MANDVI
What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn&...
AASIF MANDVI
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a cha...
AASIF MANDVI
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's cu...
AASIF MANDVI
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holida...
AASIF MANDVI
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
AASIF MANDVI
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. Yo...
AASIF MANDVI
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and...
AASIF MANDVI
I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'...
AASIF MANDVI
In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified move...
AASIF MANDVI
I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my ...
AASIF MANDVI
One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition ...
AASIF MANDVI
In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is i...
AASIF MANDVI
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
AASIF MANDVI
I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,&#...
AASIF MANDVI
That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my ...
AASIF MANDVI
You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building...
AASIF MANDVI
The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cul...
AASIF MANDVI
My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Musl...
AASIF MANDVI
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, rom...
AASIF MANDVI
When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, &#...
AASIF MANDVI
'Halal in the Family' will expose a broad audience to some of the realities of being Muslim ...
AASIF MANDVI
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hat...
AASIF MANDVI
I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. B...
AASIF MANDVI
I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer...
AASIF MANDVI
The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending ...
AASIF MANDVI
I'm free to see things objectively because I don't consider myself American, and I don't...
AASIF MANDVI
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and ...
AASIF MANDVI
I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why...
AASIF MANDVI
It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my pa...
AASIF MANDVI
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
AASIF MANDVI
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's n...
AASIF MANDVI
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things...
AASIF MANDVI
My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, wh...
AASIF MANDVI
I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I ...
AASIF MANDVI
They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They w...
AASIF MANDVI
When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis...
AASIF MANDVI
I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part o...
AASIF MANDVI
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing ...
AASIF MANDVI
I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, lik...
AASIF MANDVI
I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought ...
AASIF MANDVI
I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British p...
AASIF MANDVI