Kunal Nayyar Quotes

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I'm known for impressions and family stories.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

I think it's natural if you're doing a lot of comedy to do a lot of drama, because you have to figure out the real version of the joke.

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest. I would love to explore comedy, like a half-hour kind of single-camera comedy. I think that would kind of suit me best.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

I have always been a good mimic.

You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.