"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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Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

Aasif Mandvi

#Acting Quotes #Done Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”
“I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.”
“sometimes the best thing to do is to pretend it didn't happen”
“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.”
“I will take a little bit of credit because I did come up with 'you're welcome.'”
“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”
“I just travel all the time.”
“Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard”

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