Aasif Mandvi famous quotes

07-17-2025

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Differences #Stereotype #Reducing
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#War #Hate #Believe
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. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Jobs #Artist #Mirrors
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 doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Acting #Done #Stuff
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 who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
-- Aasif Mandvi

#New York #Thinking #America
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 entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Children #Character #People
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 becomes a lesser artist.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Artist #Thinking #Impact
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 the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Kids #White #Guy
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 happening, and it's hot!
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Children #Making Love #Hot
When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Doctors #Roles #Brown
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 people.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#People #Culture #Like You
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 from.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Views #Where You Come #Matter
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.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Bars #Mosques #Said
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Connoisseur
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Holiday #Pork #Way
I was born in India - but never really lived there.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#India #Born
It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Worry #Going Away #Trying
So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was â€” but I wanted to be there.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Ideas #America #Wanted
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.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Mom #Peanut Butter #Sandwiches

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