Aasif Mandvi

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?

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I don't like to get in front of people.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'