Aziz Ansari Quotes
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Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
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Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare.
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With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
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I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.
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Sometimes you gotta work a little, so you can ball a lot.
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If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights...
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I'm always down to try a new burger, but Shake Shack is still my top. What makes them so special is for the bread they use Martin's potato rolls which is just the best hamburger buns ever.
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I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
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Like with 'Parks and Recreation,' it's so much fun because the people writing it are funny and they're open and you just go in there and have a good time. It's pretty much the easiest job I've ever had.
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I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
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Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
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Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.
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I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer.
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I'm so jealous of people who have crushes on people they go to school with, or work with. That's such a blessing. You actually get to see them all the time and spend time with them.
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Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice.
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You've got to be pretty confident that you're good. If I do a show and for whatever reason no one laughs, I'll be like, 'Wow, those people are weird'.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.
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Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.
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The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.
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If your job was remotely interesting, there would be a show on A&E about it.
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I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.
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I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.
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No one's trying to get with jugglers.