Latest Hari Kondabolu Quotes from Interviews

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• Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do whoever you want. In fact, I'll buy you the paint. Whatever you want. Just give us 50 years. 50 years. That's it.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Art, Giving, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Who controls the images? Ultimately, we don't control the images. This is the minimum we're allowed to ask for: we don't get to control most of the media. We fight to have some say in the ways we're represented. At the bare minimum, don't insult us in person. That's all we ask! Let us at least be able to function freely in the world.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fighting, World, Insult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're a person of color in white America, you know white people. You know why you know white people? Because you can't enjoy any kind of entertainment if you are not able to humanize white people. If you watch a film and are like, "Oh, this has white people in it? Then I'm not interested," then you can't enjoy anything in America!

  Hari Kondabolu

  People, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's a sick thing, right: people are afraid of public speaking. I do public speaking, except my public speaking involves the audience only having one type of emotion and one type of reaction. If they have anything other than laughter, it's a failure. That's an absurd thing for a human to try to seek. The main thing to realize is that whatever I say, it's my truth and I believe in it, and if I don't get a laugh off that, then it's not working.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Laughter, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• New Zealanders are so chill. I know they say Australians are chill, and I feel like Australians are chill, but I keep thinking, "If they get drunk, they would commit a hate crime." Now that is an extreme position to take, but it's just a feeling I get. New Zealand people, I don't see that.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I go to a bar or a party, I feel like a student invited me to the kegger, and I actually ended up going. And everyone's shocked: "Oh, my god, professor, I didn't know you were actually going to come!" That's me in any circle, really, especially when I hang out with my brother's friends.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Party, Circles

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't look like a lot of fun. I just don't.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I always have a bit of a look, a bit of a frown.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Looks, Bits

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always looked older.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Source: www.avclub.com

• For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Years, People, Mustache

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, Hair, Weight

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My brother had a mustache, and when my brother had a mustache, it was cool. When I had a mustache, everyone just assumed I'm an immigrant and I don't speak English, which is fascinating. It was a fascinating thing to discover how I looked versus my brother with a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Brother, Speak English, Mustache

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I had a phase where I had a mustache. There was several times where I had a mustache. I had a mustache in high school because South Asian men can potentially have a great deal of facial hair. So I had a mustache at 14, and then I grew a proper mustache a few years ago. I just thought it would be fun to just have a mustache.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Fun, School, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Girl, School, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't drink before shows.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Drink, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are a lot of times where people think I'm in things that I'm not in, because they think I'm Kumail Nanjiani.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I never learned how to tie my shoes, and I was mocked for that. I still don't know how to.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Shoes, Ties, Stills

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't tie my shoes right. I tie them the way you would tie a gift, like a bow.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Ties, Shoes, Bows

  Source: www.avclub.com

• When I used to wash my hair with a two-for-one shampoo and conditioner, I would wash it twice, which is completely unnecessary, because that's the point - it's one bottle. Because I used to have the shampoo, that's one, conditioner, one. I did the same thing, even though it was two-in-one. I was corrected in my mid-20s by my girlfriend at the time, who laughed at me and said how stupid that was.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Girlfriend, Stupid, Hair

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Stupid, Long, Said

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are some dogs that are gigantic that look like they shouldn't be in existence.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Dog, Looks, Existence

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Horse is fine. I'll ride a horse.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Horse, Fine

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If I was just allowed to talk and handle the whole thing by myself without the audience interrupting with laughter, the show would be much more interesting. Think about all the time we waste by waiting for them to finish their noise, you know?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Laughter, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I am able to apply certain things to my craft that maybe other comedians don't, because I'm a devotee.

  Hari Kondabolu

  Comedian, Able, Crafts

  Source: www.avclub.com