Jason Mantzoukas quote: "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."

I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer ...
JASON MANTZOUKAS

I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.
JASON MANTZOUKAS

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always imperson...
JASON MANTZOUKAS

Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is th...
JASON REITMAN

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of p...
JASON SEGEL

A lot of people underestimate rest, especially sleeping and recovery time.
JASON DAY

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology...
JASON SILVA

People are getting cynical about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch w...
JASON SUDEIKIS

My dad, he worries a bit, usually with good reason. There were quite a few years there where he was ...
JASON ISBELL

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unb...
JASON SEGEL

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
JASON WU

There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have arti...
JASON ALDEAN

If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruc...
JASON STATHAM

I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want ...
JASON STATHAM

Bruce Lee was just so lightning-fast. People try to emulate him in whatever way they can, but to try...
JASON STATHAM

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that...
JASON BATEMAN

The Rock is the Rock, you know? He's the ultimate athlete, the professional man with precision. ...
JASON STATHAM

In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents wil...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t...
JASON WILES

As I get older, my body isn't bulletproof, and it's starting to break down. And I'm stil...
JASON DAY

I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain tha...
JASON MRAZ

It was part of my recruiting to go to Cal because they knew I loved to play baseball. I don't kn...
JASON KIDD

If you could taste words, most corporate websites, brochures, and sales materials would remind you o...
JASON FRIED

Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at...
JASON BATEMAN

I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it...
JASON BATEMAN

There is a little chubby kid in me just waiting to bust out. I usually go running but am looking for...
JASON EARLES

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over r...
JASON NEWSTED

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arro...
JASON SEGEL

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
JASON STATHAM

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural ...
JASON FRIED

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little proj...
JASON STATHAM

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the s...
JASON MRAZ

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and peopl...
JASON SCHWARTZMAN

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.
JASON FRIED

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a...
JASON REITMAN

Kermit was the Everyman, the original Tom Hanks, but I have a special place in my heart for Fozzie B...
JASON SEGEL

Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. ...
JASON BEGHE

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're argui...
JASON KATIMS

When we blaze trails, which is what Hulu is about, it takes time. That is not for the faint of heart...
JASON KILAR

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones whe...
JASON SILVA

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I'm up for an award, my fans all ...
JASON ISAACS

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
JASON KIDD

If a man does his best, what else is there?
JASON KIDD

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of know...
JASON KIDD

Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greate...
JASON CALACANIS

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and th...
JASON EPSTEIN

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...
JASON MRAZ

I won't give up on us
JASON MRAZ

If you don't believe in the things you're doing, the answer isn't fooling yourself into thinking you...
JASON MYERS

There are so many attention whores out there, prostituting for people's acknowledgment
JASON MYERS

A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...
JASON LAUMARK

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
JASON KIDD

It's always too early to quit.
JASON KIDD

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
JASON KIDD

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or...
JASON KIDD

You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We ...
JASON FRIED

I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she wri...
JASON MORAN

High risk is high adrenaline.
JASON STATHAM

Nearly 30 million people ride Amtrak each year, and they should board the trains knowing that safety...
JASON CHAFFETZ

The time has come for President Obama to formally rescind his order to close the detention facility ...
JASON CHAFFETZ

In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impre...
JASON BATEMAN

I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for am...
JASON SILVA

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going ...
JASON BATEMAN

The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances...
JASON ALDEAN

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.
JASON MARSDEN

I did a couple of American Express commercials.
JASON DOHRING

I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't ...
JASON O'MARA

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don't vote, we're not doing our part. We'...
JASON MRAZ

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic...
JASON BATEMAN

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film...
JASON SILVA

I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm...
JASON O'MARA

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.
JASON CALACANIS

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really abl...
JASON MORAN

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
JASON STATHAM

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good w...
JASON STATHAM

I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Br...
JASON STATHAM

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car cha...
JASON STATHAM

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left ...
JASON MRAZ

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.
JASON ISAACS

While the whole 'God Butcher Saga' had elements of fantasy, sci-fi and horror all mixed toge...
JASON AARON

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to h...
JASON SUDEIKIS

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka ...
JASON SILVA

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself ...
JASON MRAZ

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn...
JASON MRAZ

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a sa...
JASON BATEMAN

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
JASON SILVA

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and buil...
JASON KILAR

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people maki...
JASON KATIMS

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.
JASON RITTER

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
JASON RITTER

Anything can happen, so you have to control your attitude and stay strong.
JASON DAY

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unex...
JASON SILVA

We think of computers as smart and powerful machines. But your goldfish is smarter.
JASON FRIED

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly ...
JASON FRIED

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being profes...
JASON FRIED

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.
JASON STATHAM

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.
JASON ISBELL

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3...
JASON STATHAM

For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that...
JASON SILVA

I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft ser...
JASON MITCHELL

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.
JASON STATHAM

Whatever you do, do it to the extreme.
JASON STATHAM

Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you th...
JASON STATHAM

I love to get behind the wheel and get competitive.
JASON STATHAM

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.
JASON STATHAM

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercis...
JASON STATHAM

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.
JASON STATHAM

All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credi...
JASON STATHAM

I don't go in for the high-end gyms with the high-tech equipment and all the fancy stuff.
JASON STATHAM

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.
JASON STATHAM

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's need...
JASON STATHAM

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone&...
JASON STATHAM

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.
JASON STATHAM

You should never assume about someone.
JASON STATHAM

I'm naturally a protective person to those close to me.
JASON STATHAM

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do ot...
JASON STATHAM

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never ma...
JASON STATHAM

The most frustrating thing about injuries is that they take so bloody long to heal.
JASON STATHAM

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.
JASON STATHAM

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
JASON STATHAM

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much h...
JASON STATHAM

If you're going to do something, do it with style!
JASON STATHAM

I love getting dressed up in a suit because I don't do it all the time.
JASON STATHAM

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrit...
JASON STATHAM

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay ...
JASON SILVA

It's easy to forget, as a leader, that when employees don't get the wide view, not only does...
JASON FRIED

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don...
JASON RITTER

The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something ...
JASON RITTER

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not ...
JASON RITTER

I love doing television.
JASON RITTER

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and t...
JASON RITTER

I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me...
JASON RITTER

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect ...
JASON RITTER

I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because ther...
JASON RITTER

One of the fun things as an actor is to find a character that if you were to look up a rap sheet abo...
JASON RITTER

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
JASON RITTER

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.
JASON RITTER

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.
JASON RITTER

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they ...
JASON RITTER

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a wh...
JASON RITTER

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they'...
JASON RITTER

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.
JASON RITTER

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the ...
JASON RITTER

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more c...
JASON RITTER

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.
JASON RITTER

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the...
JASON RITTER

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to pl...
JASON RITTER

I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like the...
JASON RITTER

Your fears never go away. You just get more comfortable ignoring them.
JASON RITTER

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a...
JASON REITMAN

Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses.
JASON BEHR

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.
JASON MRAZ

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.
JASON BEHR

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris ...
JASON ALEXANDER

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously come...
JASON WILES

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technol...
JASON CALACANIS

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. ...
JASON WU

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along...
JASON MRAZ

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same...
JASON STATHAM

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain...
JASON MRAZ

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own si...
JASON NEWSTED

I've got good vibes up here in the Akron area, Cleveland area.
JASON DAY

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ...
JASON MRAZ

I've tried to be open to what's going on and paying close attention, not letting things that...
JASON ISBELL

I think, from the broad political spectrum, not just the Freedom Caucus, I think there is a need for...
JASON CHAFFETZ

We were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe.
JASON STATHAM

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn'...
JASON SILVA

Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk ...
JASON FRIED

I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That'...
JASON MORAN

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk wh...
JASON FRIED

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.
JASON PRIESTLEY

Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Ev...
JASON KRUMBINE

I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni p...
JASON SEGEL

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
JASON KATIMS

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there'...
JASON REITMAN

I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
JASON MOMOA

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. M...
JASON BATEMAN

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and th...
JASON REITMAN

I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But ...
JASON MRAZ

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sin...
JASON MRAZ

I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can eithe...
JASON BATEMAN

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things ...
JASON STATHAM

My wife may be the role model for our daughter in some ways, but I think I represent what she'll...
JASON ISBELL

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludac...
JASON ALDEAN

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what ind...
JASON SILVA

When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-ti...
JASON ALDEAN

I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound tu...
JASON MRAZ

I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
JASON FRIED

To me, the more interesting villains are the ones you can, in some sense, relate to or sympathize wi...
JASON AARON

Federal spending is atrocious.
JASON CHAFFETZ

Customers buy Basecamp without ever having to interact with us. If they do have a question, we handl...
JASON FRIED

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential f...
JASON FRIED

We had, like, the greatest time you could ever imagine doing 'Arrested Development.' And as ...
JASON BATEMAN

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to...
JASON BATEMAN

I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job aw...
JASON BATEMAN

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.

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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.

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