The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very,… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!'… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
Studio execs were like, ''Lord of the Rings!' People want to see sword-and-dragon-type things!' No, people just want to see great stories. Hollywood always… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share
