Aasif Mandvi Quotes

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• I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I…
• So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.
• It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
• I was born in India - but never really lived there.
• I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
• I'm not really a food connoisseur.
• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.
• If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come…
• The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching…
• When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
• An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers.…
• I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was…
• In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people…
• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the…
• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he…
• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on…
• Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already…
• When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.'…

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