62 Quotes by Ramy Youssef

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.

I just want people to see Muslims as human. That's it.

I love Narcy, he's such a good artist. I know him personally, he's a friend. He's of my generation - he puts out a lot of stuff through music that are themes I like to hit on in my writing and comedy.

I just feel like the most important conversations I've had in my life have been at a diner counter.

In a gray area, you don't have to provide an answer. And I don't want to. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, well, here's the answer. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, this is how to be a Muslim.

I think that a lot of the stories I would see was kids who are first-generation immigrants, watching them try to rip themselves from their family and their faith and kind of erase. I hadn't really seen anything where someone's trying to reconcile the two.

I don't even want a song to ramp up the drama, you know? I want music to be there only when it really enhances the feeling.

A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.

That's what you do if you're from Jersey. You make a big decision at a diner at 3 in the morning.