Maz Jobrani Quotes

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

My Cop Stopper was a Pokémon ball that you push the button and then Tesla's coils go in and the chemical compound reactions go, so it's an electrical ball so once you throw it out the window usually, in my idea of robbing a bank, I'd go through an alley way, and what this Pokémon ball would do, is it hits the metal of the cop car .

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.

I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.

I get to play a killer next.

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.

My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.