Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.

If there were things I felt the White House needed to be doing differently, I'd probably call them. I have a saying, and I had this in Michigan as chair, which is, 'We're a family.' When you have a difference of opinion in your family, you don't go on 'Jerry Springer'; you pick up the phone, and you call your family member.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art.

I love my brother. But I'm not a yo-yo. He can't just keep spinning me in and out of his life.

Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

I've always had a particular affinity for father-son dramas.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

It's scary to work with family, alongside my brothers and uncle. I can't imagine myself screaming at them even in front of the camera.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

My grandmother is really awful sometimes.