Quotes by Milana Vayntrub - Page 1

Nobody is powerless.
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Powerless
Nobody
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I do know what it's like to be an outsider.
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Know Like
Outsider
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We're so lucky to take being alive for granted.
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Alive
Granted
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I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.
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Refugee
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I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.
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Cosmos
Tyson
Neil
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My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.
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Orthodox
Nanny
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I want to be able to enjoy my life to the fullest so I can add something to the lives of people around me.
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Add
Life Me My Life
Life Me People
Fullest
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Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
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Directing
Music Video
Sketch
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My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.
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Awesome
Directing
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I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.
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Forget
Refugee
Originally
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My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.
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Nine
Refugee
Vienna
Italy
Status
Waited
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There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.
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Regret
Life Nothing Your
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I did a commercial for a phone company when I was five. But my first big thing was when I was eight. I was on the first season of 'E.R.'
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Big Thing
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Being an immigrant myself, but feeling very American, and also being the child of immigrants, I understand the feeling of wanting a home.
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Immigrants
Immigrant
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I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.
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Astronomy
Nothingness
Sci Fi
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I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.
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Brands
Ad
Agencies
Commercials
Directing
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I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.
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Homework
Remember
Speak
Me Parents Help
Me Remember Parents
Help
Parents
Translator
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Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.
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Silly
Funny People Comedy
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When I direct - everything I've directed has had improv in it, because I think there's something special in a performance the first time it's said out loud that's hard to recreate.
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Loud
Something Special
Time First Time Everything
Directed
Improv
Recreate
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In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement organizations like HIAS, my parents were set up with jobs.
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August
Los Angeles
Angeles
Arrived
Los
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I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.
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Drawing
Love Great Children
Universally
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The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.
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Commercials
Directing
Exercises
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In the late '80s, the U.S.S.R. loosened its restrictions on immigration. When the government was like, 'Y'all wanna bounce?' my family, along with tens of thousands of other Jews ran for the door in an attempt to make a better life in America.
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Better Life
Bounce
Immigration
Ran
Life Family Government
Wanna
Attempt
Jews
Loosened
Restrictions
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
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Every opportunity I've had to work and act with incredibly talented directors, like Dean Holland was on 'Love,' and the writers and creators of that show, Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Leslie Arfin, have been incredible learning experiences that have informed my creative process.
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Creative
Creative Process
Dean
Holland
Leslie
Process
Rust
Love Work Learning
Talented
Writers
Every Opportunity
Experiences
Incredibly
Informed
Paul
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In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish person in the Soviet Union was not easy. Not that I remember any of that - I was barely old enough to chew back then - but for my parents, both Uzbekistan-born Jews, life was a struggle.
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Anti Semitism
Soviet
Soviet Union
Barely
Chew
Ingrained
Jewish Person
Old Enough
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