Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I never worked in an office in my life.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'

I couldn't sit in a chair in an office all day.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

With all due respect to 'The Vampire Diaries,' doing the same thing, over and over again, for essentially five years straight, it really becomes laborious and tedious, and it becomes a job. You obviously find gratification in acting, but you're playing the same character. No matter how compelling it is, it starts feeling pretty monotonous.

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

I will never work in a cubicle.

It's just a job. I don't like writing.

I worked in a dining hall in college and I worked at UPS for a full three weeks - it was the worst job I ever had.

I have really no desire to go back into management ever again.

Listen: when you work for an employer for six years, are you gonna sit here and tell me you ain't gotta bad thing to say about them?

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

I like a guy who does a nine-to-five job.

I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.

I have made so many friends at Google it's not funny.

To be honest, we spent many years at Warner, and in the very beginning, there was a very passionate team that worked alongside us on a daily basis. Every year that went by, we would lose just about every single person that worked directly with us, to the point that I honestly couldn't have picked up a phone and gotten one person who knew me.

I remember when I worked at the solicitor's - you'd go in, talk to your mates for a bit and then get down to work. With us the talking to your mates part never stops.