Farahani Quotes

#1. That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

Manohla Dargis

#2. The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Golshifteh Farahani

#3. He who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged;

Lao-Tzu

#4. I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Golshifteh Farahani

#5. I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.

Golshifteh Farahani

#6. We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

Chris Stapleton

#7. In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.

Golshifteh Farahani

#8. There's an expression in Persian, 'to play with the lion's tail.' I wasn't what Iranian society wanted me to be - a good girl. I played with the lion's tail.

Golshifteh Farahani

#9. Iranian parents can't stop their children. They're just wild - they want to party, they want their rights, they want to paint, they want to dance. No one can stop these new generations coming. That's why Iran has to open up: it's like a pot full of hot water, vapour and steam.

Golshifteh Farahani

#10. Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.

Golshifteh Farahani

#11. I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.

Golshifteh Farahani

#12. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me
because I'm afraid.

Ray Bradbury

#13. I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

Joy Bryant

#14. But the term code-script is, of course, too narrow. The chromosome structures are at the same time instrumental in bringing about the development they foreshadow.

Erwin Schrodinger

#15. I guess it would be too much to ask to let Savannah bite my neck. Gary made an attempt at humor. He was rubbing his neck, every Dracula movie he had ever seen going through his mind.
A low growl rumbling in Gregori's throat was his answer.

Christine Feehan

#16. I had to tell people I was not born with a scarf because I came out Iran. People think you came out of your mother with a scarf; they can't imagine that the scarf is not stuck to your head.

Golshifteh Farahani

#17. The Chief walked back to headquarters, taking his time. His gloved hands held each other behind his back. The sound of Christmas carols in his ears. And as he walked, he hummed. He'd done what he went there to do.

Louise Penny

#18. Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it's not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it's worth it.

Golshifteh Farahani

#19. I don't believe I could live in Iran again. A tree, once uprooted from the earth, is very difficult to plant again.

Golshifteh Farahani

#20. I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#21. They had a sort of talent for happiness.

L.M. Montgomery

#22. If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Golshifteh Farahani

#23. Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

Mitra Farahani

#24. The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Golshifteh Farahani

#25. Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#26. Exile is my power.

Golshifteh Farahani

#27. The Creator of the universe longs to have a relationship with me. He is my Husband, my Provider, and my closest Confidant as a single parent.

Lorilyn Roberts

#28. Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

Mitra Farahani

#29. All my love, my pain, my passion were to be sacrificed for something greater, and yet i could not convince myself that i had mad the right choice.

Kailin Gow

#30. The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

Mitra Farahani

#31. Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

Golshifteh Farahani

#32. For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.

Golshifteh Farahani