Mena Massoud Quotes

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

… two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.

I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

No two persons ever read the same book.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

There is nothing so strange and unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

I met Edward Teller. Everything he believed in and stood for was antithetical to what I believed in and stood for. I like running into that in life. I like extreme points of view, a level of commitment - and I certainly love mastery.

I found reading Alan Bennett striking because you have this sudden flash of recognition when you read about a boy who has intellectual interests utterly different from his parents.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just see a tree. That's not to say I don't appreciate its beauty. When I watch the sea in somewhere like Sardinia, I see the beauty in that.

'Little Baby' is a beautiful film about father and daughter relationship which talks of generation gap.

My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.

'Justice' actually means different things to different people.

Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever work of art we're experiencing at that moment, and that's what makes it interesting. It's not mathematics. There are different answers for different people.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.