Kumail Nanjiani Quotes & Sayings

“I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.”

“Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.”

“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.”

“You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.”

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

“I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.”

“I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.”

“If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.”