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" Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life. "
Russell Peters
Real
Real Life
Stage
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" I love being a dad, and I'm a great dad. "
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" If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act. "
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Beautiful Woman
Beautiful
Good
" I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression. "
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Think
About
Acting
" When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like. "
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Song
Love
Think
" Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan. "
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You
Going
Plan
" I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood. "
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Movies
Career
Doing
" On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them. "
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Believe
Think
You
" Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line. "
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Race
Line
Movies
" I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right. "
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You
Stand Up
Laugh
" If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud. "
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Correct
You
Loud
" I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself. "
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People
Yourself
You
" I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie. "
Russell Peters
Want
Movie
Bollywood
" I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, 'Who is this guy? He's dope!' First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, 'Eh.' He started to get really successful. He wasn't 'mine' anymore. "
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Time
Dope
Hip-Hop
" You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it. "
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Famous
Loved
Doing
" I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board. "
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Admit
Nice
Need
" Until you have a child, you won't really understand that you would actually throw yourself in front of a bus for your child. Like, you don't really get it. Like, it's like, 'Hell no.' You know, 'She's only two. I can make another one.' You know? But, you know, you have a baby, and then you actually care about this person. "
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Yourself
Baby
Care
" My guiltiest pleasure in life is 'America's Funniest Home Videos.' I watch them all - old, new - I don't care. Despite how bad the writing is on the show. The people getting hit and hurt, that's hilarious. "
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Home
America
Life
" I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces. "
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Rest
Good
Think
" No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there. "
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Age
Young
Back
" I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs. "
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Critic
DJs
Harsh
" I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is. "
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Media
Forever
Outsider
" I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me. "
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Said
Single
Me
" There's always someone who's going to interpret my material as racist, but it's not. Racism comes from intent and power. A racist will tell a joke about a group of people only when they're not in the room. I'll talk about a group of people only when they're in the room. "
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Group
Someone
Racism
" I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful. "
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People
Always
Know
" Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white. "
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Black
White
World
" I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh. "
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People
Confidence
Life
" I'm not just saying this, but I love everything about India. "
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Just
Saying
Everything
" People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different. "
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You
Culture
Black
" I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing. "
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Culture
Differences
Environment
" I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help. "
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Help
Blind
Small