Aziz Ansari Quotes

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I still do standup.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

I was like the funny guy in sixth form. When we used to do showcases, I'd host them, and I would do, like, little comedy segments.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?