“You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.” Quote by Carlo Alban
“I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.” PeopleCharacterFeelingsEyeVirtueSkinsCleaningEye Contact Author:Carlo Alban
“I auditioned for a community theater-slash-professional production of Oliver Twist in Union City when I was 11 because my cousin wanted to be an actor and I was visiting her and it seemed like fun. I was Oliver. I hadn't had any training, I was just a cute kid. There was an agent in the audience.” KidsFunCommunityAudienceTrainingCuteCousin Author:Carlo Alban
“My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied for a green card right away but it took us 12 years to get it, so for me, from the ages of 7 to 19.” AgeParentScaredSupportiveVisa Author:Carlo Alban
“Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.” EnjoyIntroduction Author:Aziz Ansari
“Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.” KidsParentSkeptical Author:Aziz Ansari
“I know when someone that's not you tries to tell your story, especially when you don't look like the person whose story you're trying to tell, you're going to screw it up. And the only way to get it right is to have them be as involved as possible.” Trying Author:Aziz Ansari
“The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up about the Trump thing for the wrong reasons. I'm talking about these people that as soon as Trump won, they're like, we don't have to pretend like we're not racist anymore. We don't have to pretend anymore. We can be racist again. Whoa, whoa, whoa, no, no. If you're one of these people, please go back to pretending.” PeopleReasonProblemRacistPretending Author:Aziz Ansari
“In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.” KindRealProblemPastQualityKorean Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“To all those in the sound of my voice who share our values, who know that we can be a stronger America at home and abroad, a more prosperous America - that we can revive America the way that Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s, and that we can add justices to the Supreme Court who honor and uphold our Constitution - now is the time to come out, to take the time to cast that vote and make Donald Trump the president of the United States.” HomeValuesPresidentJusticeShareHonorVoteConstitutionStrongerSupreme CourtProsperous Author:Mike Pence
“I've seen Trump off the campaign trail, and I truly do believe that he has the leadership qualities and the vision to make America great again.” BelieveQualityVision Author:Mike Pence