Aziz Ansari Quotes

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.

All my work comes out of my life.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.