Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Mantzoukas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Jason Mantzoukas.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Jason Mantzoukas is an American actor, comedian, writer and podcaster. He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League, and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael.

American - Actor | Born: December 18, 1972

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When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Jason Mantzoukas

People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

Jason Mantzoukas

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

Jason Mantzoukas

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

Jason Mantzoukas

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

Jason Mantzoukas

I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny. A real charmer with a prominent mustache that he didn't know what to do with and a smart-alecky attitude.

Jason Mantzoukas

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

Jason Mantzoukas

I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.

Jason Mantzoukas

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

Jason Mantzoukas

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

Jason Mantzoukas

I've numerous times heard mothers in stores tell their children not to go near me.

Jason Mantzoukas

Looking the way I look, whenever anybody's looking for a light brown funny guy, I get the call... I'm 100 percent Greek, but I look like I could be Indian or Middle Eastern or Hispanic. If it's ethnic, they'll try and put me in it.

Jason Mantzoukas

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.

Jason Mantzoukas

I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

Jason Mantzoukas

There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

Jason Mantzoukas

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Mantzoukas

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