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" An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you. "
Artist
Job
Answers
" For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate. "
Love
Marriage
Best
" I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists? "
People
Good
Want
" If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone. "
Reducing
Someone
Differences
" I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off. "
Holidays
Off
Big
" I'm not really a food connoisseur. "
Connoisseur
Really
Food
" In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it! "
Think
America
Food
" In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from. "
Away
You
View
" I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at. "
Good
Done
Doing
" I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it. "
Mosque
Mom
Me
" I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is. "
Beauty
War
You
" It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?' "
Parents
Children
You
" I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques. "
Always
Said
Inside
" I was born in India - but never really lived there. "
Born
Never
Lived
" I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor. "
Born
Feel
Kind
" My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings. "
Media
Daily
Fear
" One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm. "
Know
New York
Snake
" People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways. "
Want
Children
Go
" The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist. "
Impact
Work
Control
" The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people. "
Feel
Experience
Culture
" The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world. "
World
Best
Daily
" Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot! "
Hot
Internet
Child
" What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist. "
Great
Satire
I Can
" When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak. "
Day
Eat
Eating
" When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles. "
You
Lot
Indian
" You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else. "
You
Comfort
Think
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