Aghdashloo Quotes & Sayings

It was almost funny, to be making this mistake. She was too old for this shit. Crying was for pussies. Making a mess of herself served no purpose at all. Now was the time to toughen up. — Kylie Scott

Cinema is a reflection of its own society. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices ... — Andres Segovia

Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood
we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule. — Penelope Lively

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well. — John Sununu

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave. — Les Claypool

I studied international relations in England, and I wanted to pursue higher education and be able to analyze what was going on in Iran politically, not only in Iran, but in the Middle East. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

Life is an act of endless creativity. With all its simmering tragedy and occasional catastrophe, a human life is an amazing thing to contemplate and experience. None of us had any special plan laid out for us when we were born. By abandoning the idea that an intelligent designer created us, we can wake with each dawn and say, What's done is done. Now how can I make the best of the here and now? — Greg Graffin

How did you notice that?" "Because I notice you. — Nalini Singh

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in my mind when I work. There are few people who do not agree with me, but truly, I don't care. I call myself an actress with a mission. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

What I had learned from our encounter was invaluable. Never try to look like your character, leave some room for the director's imagination. Turn yourself into a blank canvas ready to be painted on. Give him the pleasure of discovering you rather than finding you. — Shohreh Aghdashloo

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death. — Vincent Bugliosi

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. — Harriet Martineau

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it. — Gene La Rocque

Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford — Jude Deveraux

The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim. — Shohreh Aghdashloo