Aziz Ansari quotes

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid. (Aziz Ansari)
Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes. View quote
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Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. View quote
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When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing. View quote
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Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life. View quote
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Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever. View quote
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It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing. View quote
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After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: "Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about." View quote
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I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun. View quote
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I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love. View quote
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I know my fan base is a smart group of people. (Aziz Ansari)
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig. View quote
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A lot of people my age think stand up sucks. View quote
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen. View quote
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I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff. View quote
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Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you. View quote
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I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat. View quote
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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. View quote
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Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that. View quote
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Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession. View quote
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London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up. (Aziz Ansari)
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. View quote
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With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes. View quote
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What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up. View quote
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Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different? View quote
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