Jaffrey Quotes & Sayings

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage. — Raza Jaffrey

Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite. — Raza Jaffrey

Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Ovid

If the bears don't get you, it's home. — Tad Williams

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure! — Christopher Penczak

I miss London on nights in June or in October. — Raza Jaffrey

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances. — Raza Jaffrey

Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do. — Raza Jaffrey

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there. — Raza Jaffrey

I have no home but me. — Anne Truitt

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things. — Raza Jaffrey

One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally - that's why it's a guilty pleasure. — Raza Jaffrey

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters. — Raza Jaffrey

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months. — Raza Jaffrey

In the churchyard in Jaffrey, New Hampshire are two handsome headstones. The slate weathered well and William Farnsworth's chiseling is clearly readable. They say:

Sacred to the memory of Amos Fortune who was born free in Africa a slave in America he purchased liberty professed Christianity lived reputably and died hopefully
Nov. 17, 1801
Aet. 91

Sacred to the memory of Violate by sale the slave of Amos Fortune by marriage his wife by her fidelity his friend and solace she died his widow
Sept. 13 1802
Aet. 73 — Elizabeth Yates

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters. — Raza Jaffrey

No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor. — Raza Jaffrey

When we were courting, I told my wife: 'I could live in your eyes.' She said: 'You'd be at home; there's a stye in one of them.' — Les Dawson

But for today, my friends, we have the Sword and the Promise," Creedus said. With the fire again rising, he bent low to the ground and grabbed the sword that had been lying at his feet. As he pulled it slowly from its scabbard, it sang softly. With a light all of its own, an emblem at the base of the blade shone most brilliantly of all: Amilum. — Jaffrey Clark

Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich. — Andy Murray

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint. — Hassan Rouhani

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.' — Raza Jaffrey

Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. — Timothy Noah

I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face. — Raza Jaffrey

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose. — Margaret Mead

Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said.
Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?"
"Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them."
"You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said.
Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told. — John Flanagan

When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength. — Raza Jaffrey

Always put the rook behind the pawn ... Except when it is incorrect to do so. — Siegbert Tarrasch

Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot. — Raza Jaffrey

'Homeland' is not a sensationalist show. — Raza Jaffrey

They said time changed people, and it was true. We weren't the same two people we used to be, but somehow we evolved as one. Even with hundreds of miles between us. But — Brittainy C. Cherry