133 Quotes by Aasif Mandvi

When you’re brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world – your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, “Gunga Din” has come back.

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.

I’m not really a food connoisseur.

I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on “The Daily Show”. I was an actor. I was sort of – the irony is that I’ve done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don’t really think of myself as a comedian.

From my parent’s generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It’s about creating family. It’s about creating offspring.

This was in the ’70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.

Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the “Daily Show”, she was like no – there is no – the only way you’ll learn this job is by doing this job.