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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.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Acting Always Been Comedy Doing Done Dramatic Enjoyed Good Got Had Instinct Never Relatively Something Sort Student Stuff Theater Things Those Where

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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

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People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

~Aasif Mandvi

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I was born in India - but never really lived there.

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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

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I'm not really a food connoisseur.

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I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

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When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

~Aasif Mandvi

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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

~Aasif Mandvi

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Actor

Born: March 5th, 1966

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