Latest Aasif Mandvi Quotes from Interviews

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• Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point to reach people who want to be entertained and also learn something.

  Aasif Mandvi

  People, Serious, Comedy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Home, Long, People

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Hate, Racism, Identity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

• In some ways for many years I was off the hook.When my niece was born after that their attention was focused on that and she did that. You know, that was in our family that's what she did. I went off and chased this dream and this career that very other few people in our, you know, in my family, but even culturally were doing.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dream, Niece, Years

• I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Grandchildren, Thinking, Interesting

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• 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?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Voice, Identity, World

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Children, Successful, Wife

  Source: www.wbur.org

• There's this existential crisis in America and in the West of, like - who am I? - based on this searching for individual fulfillment, which you don't necessarily have in the East in the same way because you're kind of told what to do. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying that's just, like, the reality.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Reality, America, East

  Source: www.wbur.org

• In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Ideas, America, West

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Community, Culture, Indian Culture

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Romantic Love, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.wbur.org

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

  Aasif Mandvi

  Father, Law, Pawns

• For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

• I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Said, Bargains

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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

  Aasif Mandvi

  Today, England, Pubs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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

  Aasif Mandvi

  Years, Two, Interesting

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Today, Chickens, Dishes

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  School, Kids, Home

  Source: www.wbur.org

• For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Violence, Logic, Used

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kind, Used, Beats

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Moving, America, Culture

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• When my family decided to leave England I could not have been happier. I was sort of like - America seemed like the land of opportunity and, you know, it was Hollywood to me.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Opportunity, Land, America

• I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Thinking, Naked

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• 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.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Bullying, Racism, Way

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

• I think you had the GOP down there in North Carolina reaching out to African-American voters and this guy coming on television and using the N-word and saying what Don Yelton said.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Guy, African American

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.