Top 200 Marjane Satrapi Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You know, the cynicism that is in the politics, it is not for my soul. It makes me – out of me, an extremely bitter, cynical person that I hate to see in the mirror, really.”

— Marjane Satrapi

152. “Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution – this is something that changes in the long term.”

— Marjane Satrapi

153. “I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.”

— Marjane Satrapi

154. “I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don’t personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don’t fall in love with them, then I don’t want to work with them. It’s impossible.”

— Marjane Satrapi

155. “America is a very special place. In this country, you have the best and the worst at the same time. Whatever you can imagine.”

— Marjane Satrapi

156. “Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it’s been used to tell bad or boring stories, it’s not a problem with comics; it’s a problem with the writers of those comics.”

— Marjane Satrapi

157. “I don’t think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.”

— Marjane Satrapi

158. “Certainly, they’d had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!”

— Marjane Satrapi

159. “If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.”

— Marjane Satrapi

160. “I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.”

— Marjane Satrapi

161. “Life is complex. You don’t have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don’t always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don’t always pay.”

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162. “As a director, you have to understand what is happening – if I don’t understand it, you can’t make changes.”

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163. “People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It’s like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.”

— Marjane Satrapi

164. “You never have these moments that, you know, are always perfect. Always something happens.”

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165. “Image is an international language.”

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166. “I’m not a very good financing person. I don’t even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank – they freak me out.”

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167. “The information I have about Iran is second hand.”

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168. “As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother’s dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I’d stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. Kofff! Kofff! Kofff!!! It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.”

— Marjane Satrapi

169. “A well-trained cat doesn’t exist because a cat remains a cat.”

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170. “The things that I do today are the things I did as a child. When I was a child, either I was drawing or I was taking all the kids off my street and I wanted to make shows – I was all the time making! The only thing is, now I know how to do it better, and now they give me money for it.”

— Marjane Satrapi

171. “I’m very open and never write what I’m going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.”

— Marjane Satrapi

172. “It’s wonderful to have international friends.”

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173. “I had so many professions before. I didn’t want to do this particularly. It just happened.”

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174. “The key to wisdom is doubt!”

— Marjane Satrapi

175. “Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!”

— Marjane Satrapi

176. “My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.”

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177. “Men’s pride is situated in their scrotums.”

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178. “When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It’s not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn’t work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it’s really cool.”

— Marjane Satrapi

179. “Love is the opposite of good sense.”

— Marjane Satrapi

180. “I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.”

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181. “I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women’s breast.”

— Marjane Satrapi

182. “Bagaimanapun, selama ada minyak di Timur Tengah kita takkan pernah damai.”

— Marjane Satrapi

183. “Cigarettes are food for the soul.”

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184. “You know men!! As soon as you give in to them, they ignore you.”

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185. “When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed.”

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186. “Everyone gathered around this drink in order to devote themselves to their favorite activity: discussion. This discussion had its own purpose: To speak behind others’ backs is the ventilator of the heart.”

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187. “On ne peut s’apitoyer sur soi que quand nos malheurs sont encore soutenables... une fois cette limite franchie, le seul moyen de supporter l’insupportable, c’est d’en rire.”

— Marjane Satrapi

188. “500 turmans for the live and virginity of an innocent girl.”

— Marjane Satrapi

189. “Dear friend, life passes with or without God.”

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190. “We give meaning to life based on our point of view. Only wisdom, like the light of the candle, can bring us a complete view of existence. The key to wisdom is doubt! If you doubted a little, you would definitely be less arrogant.”

— Marjane Satrapi

191. “Get real up to a certain age, you need your parents, then later, they need you.”

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192. “When it comes to married life, character takes precedence over looks...”

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193. “Bad people are dangerous but forgiving them is too.”

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194. “Freedom Had A Price.”

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195. “The moment we can laugh together is the moment we understand each other. Once we understand each other, we cannot make war with one another.” – Marjane Satrapi.”

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196. “I never realized how much they loved me. And I understood how important they were to me.”

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197. “It’s awful. Every day I see buses full of kids arriving. They come from the poor areas, you can tell... first they convince them that the afterlife is even better than Disneyland, then they put them in a trance with all their songs... it’s nuts! They hypnotize them and just toss them into battle. Absolute carnage. The key to paradise was for poor people. Thousands of young kids, promised a better life, exploded on the minefield with their keys around their necks.”

— Marjane Satrapi

198. “Celestial light, you are my choice, my last and my best choice.”

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199. “If i wasn’t comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable at all.”

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200. “I didn’t repeat that she, too, has changed. At her age, you don’t grow up, you grow old.”

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