Russell Peters famous quotes

04-17-2025

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.
-- Russell Peters

#Love #Hate #Dancing
Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.
-- Russell Peters

#Doe #Want #Comedy
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.
-- Russell Peters

#Kids #People #Racism
Im 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? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.
-- Russell Peters

#Successful #Dope #Hip Hop
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.
-- Russell Peters

#Couple #Thinking #Hands
This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.
-- Russell Peters

#Addiction #Age #Culture
Self-worth and financial worth become indistinguishable.
-- Russell Peters

#Self Worth #Self #Culture
We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
-- Russell Peters

#Opportunity #Missing #Culture
Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.
-- Russell Peters

#Pain #Essence #Suffering
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.
-- Russell Peters

#Dream #Believe #Opportunity
From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
-- Russell Peters

#Believe #Culture #Principles
I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.
-- Russell Peters

#Bollywood #Want
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.
-- Russell Peters

#Fighting #Games #Boxing
I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.
-- Russell Peters

#Stereotype
Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.
-- Russell Peters

#Hate #Blow #Airports
Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'
-- Russell Peters

#Doors #Dancing #Worry

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