Quotes by Jason Mantzoukas - Page 1

I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Poking
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A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Behinds
Comedy
Exhilarating
Purpose
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I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Mothers
Near
Numerous
Numerous Times
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There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Beard
Creepy
Gross
Me Know Find
Giant
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Auditions
Eastern
Middle
Accent
Certain Point
Middle Eastern
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Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Beard
Noticing
Barely
Emotionally
Giant
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People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Appropriate
People Know Need
Background
Improviser
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Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Ensemble
Background
Improv
Sharing
Sketch
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It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Appearance
Discover
Normal Person
Pen
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When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Men
Children
Mimicking
Song
Song And Dance
Danny
Referred
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I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer with a prominent mustache that he didn't know what to do with and a smart-alecky attitude.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Dissing
Mustache
Prominent
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I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Colossal
Information
Media
Method
My Time
Promotion
Seems
Social
Social Media
Waste
Understand
Time Social Media Me
Million
Other
Rather
Waste Of Time
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Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Funny
Brown
Eastern
Funny Guy
Greek
Guy
Hispanic
Indian
Light
Middle
Percent
Anybody
Try
Call
Could
Ethnic
Funny Look Me
Look
Put
Middle Eastern
Whenever
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There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Kids
Teacher
Class
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I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.
Jason Mantzoukas / Actor
Addiction
Jane
Rock Bands
Alternative
Covers
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