Aasif Mandvi Quotes, Views Quotes, Where You Come Quotes

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

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Bradford specifically there were a lot of Pakistanis there. Even today it has a very large Pakistani population.It was something that I experienced - getting chased home from the bus stop after school by English kids, boarding school, being targeted for praying to what they call Allah wallah ding dong.

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So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

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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!

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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!

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I was born in India - but never really lived there.

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I'm not really a food connoisseur.

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It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

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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.

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Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

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If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

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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.

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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.

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I don't want to tell people what they should think.

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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.

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England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

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