Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.