Hasan Minhaj

Actor

110 Quotes

I'm just an American citizen like everyone else and I'm not sitting at the power table in the room where it all happens.

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.

I'm a huge fan of Beverly Cleary.

I look like a melanin version of Chris Hayes.

America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.

Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.

As a single guy, the baseline of what I needed was so low. I just needed an air mattress, food, and rent money.

I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.

One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists, and I consider myself to be an optimist.

I'm not a Larry David. I don't have a 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and a 'Seinfeld' in me.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

Sean Spicer has somehow been doing PR since 1999, which is 18 years. Somehow, after 18 years, his go-to move was denying the Holocaust.

Donald Trump is liar-in-chief.

We shouldn't get lost in the bombastic tweets of Trump. He provides such great fodder every day. You don't want to lose sight of the other stuff that's going on that's even more important.

Bananas are my go-to breakfast.

I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, 'This is what it is. This is unfair; that's not cool.'

I exist in this hyphen. I'm an Indian-American-Muslim kid, but am I more Indian, or am I more American? What part of my identity am I?

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