Hasan Minhaj Quotes

Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm.

When I was growing up, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of TV. She said I couldn't watch 'Friends' or that era of sitcoms.

I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

When I was a kid I went and saw Bill Cosby with my dad, and I remember sitting there and laughing so hard.

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

I grew up as one of six kids.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

I grew up - for a while, the only show I could watch if I hadn't finished my homework was 'The Simpsons,' because I think my parents saw that there was some real-life lessons to take from that.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

Television and I grew up together.

We have to ask people who produce things [entertainment] to consider their consequence—especially with children.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

My mother had to tailor what I watched.

I was brought up when media still kept totally away from violence when it came to children. I don't think it would have made me scared of violence, but I find it repulsive.