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Aasif Mandvi

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Aasif Mandvi is an accomplished Indian-American actor recognized for his diverse roles in film, television, and theater. Born on March 5, 1966, Mandvi has made a significant impact with his versatile performances. He is notably known for his role in 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and his tenure as a correspondent on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'.

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

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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.”

Way Bigs Holiday Pork Jewish Friends

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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.”

Said Worst Bars Representatives Mosques

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“If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.”

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“In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.”

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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.”

People Feels Shows Culture Like You Exciting Reaching Popular Culture

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“When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.”

Roles Doctors Indian Brown

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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.”

Giving Jobs Faces Artist Answers Fronts Mirrors Your Face

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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.”

Done Stuff Acting Comedy Students Theater Instinct Enjoyed Dramatic

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“In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!”

People Thinking Kind Stills America New York South Indian Chicago Asian Exotic Indian Food

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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.”

People Way Want Children Character Parent Roles Written Fields South Entertainment Asian Lament

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Impact

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“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.”

World Sometimes Shows Kids Joy Guy Culture Stuff Sides White Brown Outsiders Absurdity Fence Both Sides Great Joy Insiders Daily Show

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“Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!”

Children Known Television Internet Happenings Hot Traditional Making Love

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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.”

Made Stills Mom Eating My Friends Sandwiches Peanuts Steak Peanut Butter Peanut Butter Sandwiches

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“I don't want to tell people what they should think.”

People Thinking Want Should

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“America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.”

People Ifs World America Law Values Asks Ideals Excuse Around The World Promoting Being Afraid

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“I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.”

Thinking Common Talking Groups Politician Seeking Comedian Approval Narcissist

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“The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.”

World Years Ideas My Family Islam Absurd Mosques Muslim World

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“I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.”

Knows Mark Quran

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“The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?”

Knows Needs Wells I Can Shows Problem Certain Know How Mom Smart Yeah Solve Daily Show

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“I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.”

Missing Beach Usa Girlfriend Hanging Out My Best Friend My Girlfriend Dolphins

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“I mean, but obviously, in people's eyes, it still - it can still link Islam to terrorism. I mean, why does it make a difference that they're white?”

People Mean Doe Stills Eye Differences White Islam Terrorism Making A Difference Links

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“Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.”

Creative Luck Good Luck Bigots Slurs

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“Because to Americans, Chechnya might as well be a suburb of Narnia.”

Wells Might Suburbs Narnia Chechnya

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“I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.”

Shows Fans Impression Daily Show

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“I think one of my favorite pieces I've ever done on the show which was about Hezbollah Israel conflict in 2006 and it was very pointed. It was a beautifully crafted piece of satire and it's a weird thing to say but it had a joke in there about 9/11 and I remember the audience sort of laughing but also kind of not knowing how to respond to that joke and it was just so - and I remember the tension after we did this joke on the air and there was this palpable gasp in the audience, but they were also laughing. And I thought oh, wow, that is something that is not being said in the Zeitgeist.”

Thinking Kind Said Done Shows Remember Audience Laughing Knowing Pieces Air Conflict Jokes My Favorite Israel Tension Satire Wow Not Knowing Weird Things Zeitgeist Hezbollah

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“It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.”

“If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.”

Ifs Believe Shows Levels Prophet You Choose Muhammad Prophet Muhammad

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“I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.”

People Thinking Different Done Shows Actors Careers Backgrounds Comedian Irony Dramatic Comedic Pedigree Daily Show

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“There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes.”

People Knows Kind Soul Sometimes Shows School Doors Your Soul Interviews Daily Show

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“Samantha Bee said to me when I first started on the "Daily Show", she was like no - there is no - the only way you'll learn this job is by doing this job.”

Way Firsts Said Shows Jobs Bees Daily Show Samantha

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“North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.”

Thinking States Fine Members Voting Executives Committees Restriction Chairman Carolina North Carolina Gop

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“Statistically there is enough voter fraud to sway zero elections.”

Enough Election Zero Voters Fraud Voter Fraud

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“Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.”

Doe Past Racism Court Supreme Voters Fraud Supreme Court Voter Fraud

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“Of course the law's not racist.”

Law Courses Racist

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“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.”

Thinking Said Guy Television African American Reaching Voters Reach Out This Guy Carolina North Carolina Gop American Voters

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“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.”

People Thinking Knows World Jobs Father Opportunity Saws Grew Grew Up England Towns Yeah University New World Coal Better Life Mining Textiles Coal Mining Bradford

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Dad My Dad Stores Naked Magazines

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“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.”

Way Term Racism South Bullying Hazing

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“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.”

Knows Has Beens America Opportunity Land My Family Decided Hollywood England Land Of Opportunity

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“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.”

World America Moving Culture Grew Grew Up Decided Pops Planes Pop Culture Humdrum Bradford American Pop Culture

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

Ends Used Violence Logic

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

Kind Used Term Beats Indian

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“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.”

Home Kids Today School Praying Population Bus After School Bus Stops Bradford

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

Years Two Interesting England Indian Colonization

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

Today Britain Chickens Reverse Dishes Great Britain

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

Today England Pubs

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

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About the Author

Born: March 5, 1966
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 66

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