Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

I feel intimidated by fashion.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

I talk like I know what I'm saying, but I don't.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Self-doubt kills talent.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

Have I ever pretended to be something? I think back in college I think I might have told a girl that I was a professional tennis player once. And then, of course, she had never heard of me so I had to dig deeper. 'I'm just sort of on the playing satellites. You know, I'm kind of working my way up. I'm not ranked in the top 100 or anything.'

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.