Quotes by Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Nanjiani

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it’s easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star – although I would love to be an action star!

Action

Guy

Stars

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Friday

Thanksgiving

Wall

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I’m acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don’t always agree with it, but I really need it.

Acting

Criticism

Needs

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

Carts

Fruit

Meat

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

Firsts

Moving

New York

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

Fortune

Games

Wheels

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool – insecurity.

Feelings

Insecurity

Thinking

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Comedy

People

Thinking

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody’s rich and there’s stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it’s not untrue.

America

Crazy

Pakistan

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

Fallen

Public Speaking

Shy

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Discipline

Doctors

Effort

Fallen

Feelings

Firsts

Fortune

Friday

Fruit

Games

Guy

Hours

Huge

Insecurity

Joy

Judging

Listening

Majority

Mean

Meat

Monsters

Moving

Needs

New York

Pakistan

People

Philosophical

Philosophy

Public Speaking

Punishment

Real

Realistic

Religion Of Islam

Religious

Scary

Shy

Smart

Sometimes

Stage

Stars

Stories

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Quotes by Kumail Nanjiani

Kumail Nanjiani

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it’s easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star – although I would love to be an action star!

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I’m acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don’t always agree with it, but I really need it.

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.

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

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is Wheel Of Fortune because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool – insecurity.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody’s rich and there’s stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it’s not untrue.

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

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