Top 180 Aziz Ansari Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.”

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52. “I’m an optimist – I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.”

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53. “Everyone’s first thought is “These women are going to take advantage of you” or “Someone’s only going to date you because you’re famous.” That stuff’s not really an issue because that’s super-easy to see through.”

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54. “Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.”

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55. “Marriage was too vital an economic and political institution to be entered into solely on the basis of something as irrational as love,” writes Coontz.”

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56. “No one’s trying to get with jugglers.”

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57. “Regardless of your ethnicity or anything, if you do great work, people will notice and you’ll get hired.”

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58. “Waiting for true love was a luxury that many, especially women, could not afford. In the early 1960s, a full 76 percent of women admitted they would be willing to marry someone they didn’t love. However, only 35 percent of the men said they would do the same.3 If you were a woman, you had far less time to find a man. True love? This guy has a job and a decent mustache. Lock it down, girl.”

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59. “I hope you aren’t holding an ice cream cone against your chest, ’cause your heart just warmed – and your ice cream just melted.”

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60. “Another idea from social psychology that goes into our texting games is the scarcity principle. Basically, we see something as more desirable when it is less available. When you are texting someone less frequently, you are, in effect, creating a scarcity of you and making yourself more attractive.”

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61. “It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.”

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62. “If passionate love is the coke of love, companionate love is like having a glass of wine or smoking a few hits of some mild weed.”

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63. “Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.”

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64. “I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I’ve really had.”

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65. “Even in my stand-up, there’s a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.”

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66. “I have found that she is as kind and caring a person as she is hilarious. Simply put, Amy Poehler is my hero.”

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67. “It made me wonder whether our ability and desire to interact with strangers is another muscle that risks atrophy in the smartphone world. You don’t need to make small talk with strangers when you can read the Beverly Hills, 90210 Wikipedia page anytime you want. Honestly, what stranger can compete with a video that documents the budding friendship of two baby hippopotamuses? No one, that’s who.”

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68. “Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn’t really channel them.”

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69. “I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn’t, but I thought: ‘What the hell?’ So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.”

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70. “I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an ‘ethnic comic’ or an ‘Asian comic.’ I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.”

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71. “I’m kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.”

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72. “You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It’s a one-man play.”

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73. “Later I check Instagram, and this clown Tanya is posting a photo of some deer. Too busy to write me back, but she has time to post a photo of some deer she saw on a hike?”

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74. “I always have my setlist planned out, but the best moments are when the energy of the crowd just gets your mind working and you are able to come up with new tags for jokes and just riff off things in the room.”

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75. “In this era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the universe can contact you instantly. Think about how crazy that is compared to even a few decades ago.”

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76. “There’s lots of competition for attractive women, and women get much higher hit rates than men. Granted. But in the midst of this he also said something incredible: “I got approximately 350 matches in 5 months.” That’s seventy people a month. Twenty years ago, if you met a guy who said he’d met seventy women who’d expressed.”

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77. “I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.”

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78. “Today, if you own a smartphone, you’re carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket. Press a few buttons at any time of the day, and you’re instantly immersed in an ocean.”

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79. “The temptation to continue to creep on your ex over the Internet is nearly universal. One study found that 88 percent of those who continued to have access to their ex’s Facebook page said they sometimes monitored their ex’s activities, while 70 percent of people who had disconnected from an ex admitted to trying to spy on the ex’s page by other means, such as through a friend’s account.”

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80. “There’s not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person.”

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81. “There’s something uniquely valuable in everyone, and we’ll be much happier and better off if we invest the time and energy it takes to find it. But seriously, if the person doesn’t clip their toenails or wear clean socks, look elsewhere. There are plenty of options.”

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82. “Come cook food with me and do nothing.”

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83. “Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you’re not supposed to be the coolest guy.”

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84. “Nowadays the Internet is my chubby friend.”

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85. “This gets into a fundamental change in how marriage is viewed. Today we see getting married as finding a life partner. Someone we love. But this whole idea of marrying for happiness and love is relatively new.”

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86. “This is why I always say: “If your mother asks you to come beat up an elderly woman on the street for feeding stray cats, JUST SAY NO, it’ll always come back to haunt you.”

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87. “Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.”

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88. “Why do we all say we prefer honesty but rarely give that courtesy to others?”

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89. “I’m kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.”

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90. “In a sense we are all like a Flo Rida song: The more time you spend with us, the more you see how special we are. Social scientists refer to this as the Flo Rida Theory of Acquired Likability Through Repetition.”

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91. “I’ve always tried to maintain that I don’t have any advice to give. I’m a curious observer.”

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92. “I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.”

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93. “The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff.”

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94. “That’s the thing about the Internet: It doesn’t simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing and, if we search hard enough, we can find it. And in turn there are a whole bunch of inferior things that we’d be foolish to choose.”

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95. “For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.”

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96. “Even if you say you “don’t play games,” that is a type of game – it is the “I don’t play games” game.”

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97. “What’s cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn’t be able to joke about in stand-up.”

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98. “If this mentality has so pervaded our decision making, then it stands to reason that it is also affecting our search for a romantic partner, especially if it’s going to be long-term. In a sense, it already has. Remember: We are no longer the generation of the “good enough” marriage. We are now looking for our soul mates. And even after we find our soul mates, if we start feeling unhappy, we get divorced.”

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99. “Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.”

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100. “Any jokes I make I try to make sure it’s on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.”

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