My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

My stories take three or four months to fix, and it's not magical of a process. Ultimately it's a boring, difficult process. I write everything out, and then the parts I think are funny I put in bold. Then I go perform it. Then the parts that aren't funny, I unbold them.

On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was, geographically.