Aziz Ansari Quotes

Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

No one can pronounce my name. My name is 'The Black Guy From 40-Year-Old Virgin'.

I am an absolute geek, without doubt.

I'm a huge nerd.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

The Internet now is completely full of memes, and it's interesting, the idea that instead of having a sign crotched on your door or a magnet on your fridge saying whatever cliches and bon mots, pictures laid out with some text are passed around and move really fast.

I don't know why I have been branded a glam doll.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but..." I say, "I'm not racist, but you look great today." They say, "That wasn't racist at all." I said, "I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican."

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

White folks always think that you have to have a label on everything - you know what I mean?

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".

Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.