Aasif Mandvi Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Character, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

• From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Romantic Love, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.wbur.org

• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Successful, Wife

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Interesting

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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