Kumail Nanjiani

One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'

— Kumail Nanjiani

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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

Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

A lot of times, it seems like social media has devolved into people just yelling at each other and not really conversing.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

— Kumail Nanjiani

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague,…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.

— Kumail Nanjiani

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

— Kumail Nanjiani

I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters' and 'Knight Rider' and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always…

— Kumail Nanjiani

Being a fish out of water is tough, but that's how you evolve.

— Kumail Nanjiani

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I know a lot of brown actors who play terrorists because they're physically intimidating. For me, it was like, 'O.K., you'll be…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I had this very strict rule when I began auditioning that I wasn't gonna do a thicker accent, because it was like,…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I don't want to generalize, but the target audience for a lot of the YouTube people is fairly young - under the…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I'm still trying to figure out how to have an adult relationship with my parents.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to…

— Kumail Nanjiani

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people…

— Kumail Nanjiani