S H Raza 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

it's a good thing I'm used to this;
the process of shutting things out
as they fall apart,
the pretence of cool
in a dry, hot season,
the taste of redemption
in a t.v. screen


if God had a voice
what would it say? — Hima Raza

I have to stop looking back because the more I do, the weaker I get. — Sehar Raza

Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful. — Imam Ahmed Raza Khan

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

She, whose life had blown up, emptying her of history and leaving in its place only that dark dream of majesty, that illusion so powerful that it demanded to enter the sphere of what-was-real - she, rootless Bilquis, who now longed for stability, for no-more-explosions, had discerned in Raza a boulder-like quality on which she would build her life. He was a man rooted solidly in an indeflectible sense of himself, and that made him seem invincible. — Salman Rushdie

We're both of the invented Caribbean, Nesto says, a Nuevo Mundo alchemy of distilled African, Spaniard, Indian, Asian, and Arab blood, each of us in varying mixtures. He likes to compare our complexions, putting his arm next to mine, calls me 'canelita, ni muy tostada ni muy blanquita' showing off his darkness, proof, his mother told him, of his noble Yoruba parentage and brave cimarron ancestors, la raza prieta of which he should be proud no matter how much others have resisted mestizaje, hanging onto the milky whiteness of their lineage like it's their most precious commodity. — Patricia Engel

One is to a human and other is to adopt humanity — Qasim Raza Qadri

'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

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

You have the potential for becoming air;
as still, as necessary, just there. — Hima Raza

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

Whatever you want in life, do one thing every day which brings you a little closer towards attainment of your goal.
Even if it means spending a few minutes. No matter how small the effort is, if done consistently, it will start compounding and before you know it, you would have already realized your dream. — Zeeshan Raza

Some of my friends treat me like GOD they remember me only when they need me. — Hasan Raza

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

My Life is My MOM & DAD — Qasim Raza Qadri

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

Success is the ability to change some one's perception of life. — Zeeshan Raza

In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature.
Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race. — Ed Morales

La Raza stands for 'The Race' - and they say so openly. They are a pro-Hispanic organization; I will call them a racist organization. They base their philosophy on race. They advocate for those minorities that fit within the category that they define as drives them. They are apologists for illegal immigrants - and we are funding them with your tax dollars in this administration through earmarks. It is outrageous. It's an in-your-face act on the part of this Congress. — Steve King

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

Actually it's just a thought in your mind. Please put in clear your mind with that thoughts.!! — Qasim Raza Qadri

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

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

Bill Clinton blasted anti-immigration supporters at the National Council of La Raza convention in Los Angeles Saturday. Thousands of Hispanics poured into Los Angeles for the convention. The hot weather in the desert kept the numbers down. — Argus Hamilton