Top 100 Quotes About Jai
#1. If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.
Pranab Mukherjee
#2. Another thing that Denis likes about Thailand is the concept of jai yen, cool heart. The worst thing one can do in Thailand is to lose one's jai yen. This is why Thais have no patience for uppity foreigners, which is pretty much all foreigners.
Eric Weiner
#4. For Jai and me, our dented cars became a statement in our marriage. Not everything needs to be fixed.
Randy Pausch
#5. It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai
Randy Pausch
#6. This is Jai." She bobbed a head over her left shoulder. "And Charlie." Head bob over her right shoulder. "But today you can call them Ass and Hat.
Samantha Young
#7. My mother taught me my first bhajan. My mother, Shobha Nigam, was a very religious woman. From her only I learnt 'Om Jai Jagdish' song and used to do puja along with her.
Sonu Nigam
#8. I'm more likely to give you a cuddle than a punch in the face. I have a soft side, especially with my girlfriend. I send her flowers and use my culinary skills to pull off romantic meals. I do great Thai dishes.
Jai Courtney
#9. All money ain't good money, but no money ain't good.
Jai Ellis
#11. Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.
Michael Jai White
#12. As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me.
Jai Rodriguez
#13. I have such bad insomnia and sometimes with insomnia, you can sort of relax and read a book, but anyone who has insomnia knows that other times, it generates incredible anxiety.
Jai Uttal
#14. I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.
Michael Jai White
#15. Sitting with Maharaj-ji creates who I am as much as sitting in a 12 Step meeting creates who I am.
Jai Uttal
#16. To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real thrill. That had a lot to do with the evolution of my ambition as well.
Jai Courtney
#17. When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.
Michael Jai White
#18. When I was just beginning to have "celebrity" status, I would think I was a star and rolled with it a little but that was then.
Jai Uttal
#19. I need to remember that I'm a human being too, so why can't I love me.
Jai Uttal
#20. For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing because it wasn't about an athletic build; the build they were looking for was something more unassuming or boyish. And it was tough!
Jai Courtney
#21. At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
Jai Rodriguez
#22. I like to eat. So it's often a battle to try and control that.
Jai Courtney
#23. Sometimes you can be with a group of people and feel so much love for them while you're looking around and then you get to yourself and you go, "Ugh."
Jai Uttal
#24. I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on.
Jai Courtney
#25. In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
Michael Jai White
#26. Sometimes life can be as cruel as to end as a word break up
Jai Prakash
#27. The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called 'Monkey Hustle.' Like I said, just listen to the name. That's a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
Michael Jai White
#28. I've been through a lot. It doesn't make me enlightened, or this or that, but I've had a handful of experiences that have given me some information that I can share with others.
Jai Uttal
#29. To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
Michael Jai White
#30. I feel many, many challenges in my career but I try not to obsess about them. I deal with them, but not obsess.
Jai Uttal
#31. I don't want to name drop, but Russell Crowe is the most famous person in my phone.
Jai Courtney
#32. Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.
Jai Rodriguez
#34. My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.
Jai Rodriguez
#35. I don't know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must've been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I'd get.
Michael Jai White
#36. I'm trying to be nice to me too. It's kind of childish, but it's work that needs to be done.
Jai Uttal
#37. The star' status, it just doesn't mean much to me. Mostly I'm just around home and doing my thing and I feel pretty regular.
Jai Uttal
#38. It's a funny thing because I don't want to wish away my privacy. Do I want 'Terminator Genisys' to explode? Absolutely. Do I want to take my career to the next level? Absolutely? You have to trade some things for that. It's all about how you conduct yourself and what you make of the experience.
Jai Courtney
#40. My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
Jai Courtney
#41. My favorite TV couple is Edith and Archie Bunker. Because they were such individuals that I can't imagine anyone else playing them. And I think that Archie was one of the greatest characters ever on television. Even with his flaws, you loved him.
Michael Jai White
#42. The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
Jai Courtney
#43. When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films ... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.
Jai Courtney
#44. I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he?
Jai Clare
#45. I love the movie 'Taken,' but the dialogue in the beginning of that movie is hilarious. They're talking, these commando types, and there's dialogue like, 'Hopefully your daughter appreciates what you're doing for her. Does she know that you're doing it?' What guys talk like this?
Michael Jai White
#46. I remember as a young man seeing these bigger-than-life, strong images of black manhood in the form of Jim Brown and Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Billy Dee Williams. All these guys were these alpha males who were smart, attractive. I said, 'Wow, I want to be like that.'
Michael Jai White
#47. When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Jai Rodriguez
#48. Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?
Jai Courtney
#49. I've been approached by a couple of people who've recognized me from 'Jack Reacher.' It's great ... when the feedback's positive. I don't know if I look forward to the day when I can't go out and get a cup of coffee. I kinda hope that day never happens.
Jai Courtney
#50. After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.
Jai Courtney
#51. I feel that all the experiences I've gone through in my life, the joyful ones and the painful ones, they add to the picture and completeness of who I am.
Jai Uttal
#52. I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.
Michael Jai White
#53. I don't feel we necessarily choose our life experiences. I think karma and grace give us what we need to have.
Jai Uttal
#54. Auditioning for a couple of years, 99 per cent of the time you are doing an American accent.
Jai Courtney
#55. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.
Jai Courtney
#56. I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.
Jai Courtney
#57. I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.
Jai Rodriguez
#58. A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.
Jai Courtney
#59. I'm not someone who likes to live in the gym.
Jai Courtney
#60. With my son, I feel that he's a completely spiritual being. It's not spiritual as the same way of the people in my generation, but we grew up in the consciousness that spirituality was something sort of separate from life.
Jai Uttal
#61. I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.
Michael Jai White
#62. I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.
Jai Courtney
#63. World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.
Jai Uttal
#64. Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.
Jai Courtney
#66. The ego is just part of who we are. Sometimes it's great and helps us move forward and sometimes it's a bummer.
Jai Uttal
#67. I did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way.
Jai Courtney
#68. It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.
Jai Rodriguez
#69. There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe ... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.
Michael Jai White
#70. If Allah has willed it that way ... He must have better plans for you child ...
K. Hari Kumar
#71. I want to know what real devotion is, but then that's just a word.
Jai Uttal
#72. I really feel myself to be a human who struggles, but the most important thing is my work as a papa.
Jai Uttal
#73. If you get just a bit of exercise in before every meal, you'll really see a difference.
Jai Courtney
#74. What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?
Neil Gaiman
#75. That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny.
Michael Jai White
#76. I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
Jai Courtney
#77. Sometimes as we go through life, it gets challenging and the Divine energy gets beat up a little bit, so it's important to have little tools that help keep the connection strong.
Jai Uttal
#78. I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.
Michael Jai White
#79. I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.
Jai Courtney
#80. My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.
Jai Rodriguez
#81. Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.
Michael Jai White
#83. God pervades every molecule so how can we think that spirituality is something else, and I see with my boy that complete awareness. Light is everywhere, it's in him, it's in everything.
Jai Uttal
#84. The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.
Jai Rodriguez
#85. The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.
Jai Courtney
#86. I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.
Michael Jai White
#87. I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
Jai Courtney
#88. I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.
Michael Jai White
#89. I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
Michael Jai White
#90. Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.
Jai Courtney
#92. Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space - digging into the heart's deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.
Jai Uttal
#93. I want to live right and that means learning how to be kind to myself.
Jai Uttal
#95. I know I'm on a small cable reality show. I'm realistic where I stand in the scheme of things.
Jai Rodriguez
#96. Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.
Michael Jai White
#97. I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.
Jai Courtney
#98. I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.
Michael Jai White
#100. There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.
Michael Jai White
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