Jason Scott quotes

“My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them. And Bruce Lee was amazing.”
-- Jason Scott

#Mother Quotes #Art Quotes #Father Quotes

“I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.”
-- Jason Scott

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 29, 2005.

#Sweet Quotes #Eight Quotes #Years Quotes

“A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.”
-- Jason Scott

#Self Quotes #Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes

“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”

“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”

“The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried...”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

“Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.”

“She wouldn't come back. She hated me. She hated Nan. She hated my mom. She hated her father. She wouldn't come back here... but God, I wanted her to.”

“[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”

“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”