Shalhoub Tony Quotes & Sayings

The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising. — Emily Post

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes. — Tony Shalhoub

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment. — Tony Shalhoub

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. — Sydney Brenner

If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it. — Marcus Aurelius

I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything. — Tony Shalhoub

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself. — Tony Shalhoub

The biggest risk is not taking any risk ... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. — Mark Zuckerberg

I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves. — Tony Shalhoub

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise. — Tony Shalhoub

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another. — Bill McCartney

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle

You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people. — Tony Shalhoub

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on. — Tony Shalhoub

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. — Benjamin Franklin

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture. — Tony Shalhoub

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes. — Tony Shalhoub

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important. — Oscar Wilde

Touch? Other guys? He knew she'd have to, but to hear her say it, to know she'd tried ... A terrible
pressure condensed in his chest cavity and his skull, and then he heard some sort of monster in the room - — Larissa Ione

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things. — Tony Shalhoub

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. — F.H. Bradley

I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings. — Tony Shalhoub

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health. — Tony Shalhoub

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week. — Tony Shalhoub

This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done, — Tony Shalhoub

Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard. — Arthur Jones

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. — Bertrand Russell

No peace and security among mankind - let alone common friendship - can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms. — John Locke

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one. — Tony Shalhoub

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano . — Tony Shalhoub

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on. — Anna Quindlen