Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!

If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

I get criticized for anything I do.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

People are gonna comment no matter what. If I dated the most clean-cut, perfect guy, they're gonna comment. That's just the way it is.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

It's really weird when people scrutinize every little thing about you and talk about your outfits and your weight and who you're dating... and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That's definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you're literally like, 'Look at my body!'

I'm pretty self-critical about everything I've ever done: stand-up, 'SNL.'

I feel overestimated.

You're open to minute-by-minute criticism which comes via Twitter, that starts seeping its way into your head, and it's easy to let that affect how you do the game... it was a nice moment when I got to take that off my phone.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

Being on the main roster, there is a lot more talk. Sometimes I can't even go on Twitter for days because I just feel it's negative comment after negative comment.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

The thing about social media is that someone's going to hate what you do no matter what you do.

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'