Maz Quotes

#1. I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.

Maz Jobrani

#2. Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

Maz Jobrani

#3. My name is June Iparis.

Marie Lu

#4. My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as
if I was going to die any minute.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#5. Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Clive Thompson

#6. When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

Maz Jobrani

#7. So why someone would kill themselves to be with seventy-two inexperienced women is beyond me.

Maz Jobrani

#8. When will he be as he was?' Dany demanded.
'When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east' said Mirri Maz Duur. 'When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child. Then he will return, and not before.

George R R Martin

#9. You know, funny can be universal.

Maz Jobrani

#10. The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

Mike Rowe

#11. Bartenders overhear the best stories

Samantha Young

#12. If you come from a place of love, and you're not saying, 'I'm better than you,' that's one thing that allows you to talk about different ethnicities. It's almost like laughing with each other.

Maz Jobrani

#13. Well into the 1980s, New Orleans restaurants continued to list "wop salad" on their menus and a glass of Chianti could be had by calling for a "dago red.

James Gill

#14. Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. "Are you all right?"
"Yes. Sorry," he whispered. "I'm just having an attack of limericks."
Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. "Shhh," she said, with feeling.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#15. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.

George Saunders

#16. Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East - [they] don't know we laugh.

Maz Jobrani

#17. If you do finish the book and are still scared of me and people of my ilk, then I recommend you schedule an appointment with a therapist. Either that, or try writing your own book

Maz Jobrani

#18. Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#19. What is called true happiness? It is 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit). The person who has attained 'chit prasannta', he need not beg for anything in this world!

Dada Bhagwan

#20. I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.

Maz Jobrani