No Land's Man Quotes

“Profanity is the chili pepper of language. If used by an idiot or a clod, it can overwhelm the discourse so the meaning is lost, but if used by a linguistic master chef, it can insert a piquant passion to the point where even though your ears may burn and you may want to rinse your mouth out, you cannot say it doesn’t sound delicious.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man

“Americans think about the rest of the world the same way New Yorkers think about the rest of America: they don't.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man

“They have thirty-two flavors, thirty-two bloody flavors,” he said, “and you order chocolate? Chocolate you can get anywhere in the world. Why did we come to America? It is an insult to every beggar on the streets of India to simply order chocolate. We didn’t sacrifice everything and come to the land of plenty so that you could be satisfied with bloody plain old chocolate ice cream.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man

“Why South Asian actors could be funny or nerdy but never sexy, yet South Asian actresses had to be.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man

“A woman who I clearly would have had as much success with if she had been a Hasidim or Amish.”
― Aasif Mandvi, No Land's Man