Kumail Nanjiani

I would do it right now.

So with acting, I mean, you're playing different characters, but at least the way I do it, I wasn't trained or anything in acting.

I mean, I've been taking acting classes now for about 12 years, but I didn't go to school for it.

I have to use parts of myself.

I have to put parts of myself into the character, and I have to take parts of the character and put them into myself.

It is very personal.

No matter how different the character is on the surface, you really are using a lot of your own insights for it.

I'm more sensitive.

I think so.

Although, you know, with anxiety for so long, it was just like what I thought being a person was.

That is just sometimes it becomes like background noise.

You don't even know.

Like for me, the biggest...

I've had journeys with both those things about myself.

And I'm at different points with them.

With anxiety, it took me a long time to even realize I was anxious.

And it was with my Y family.

We've been together for years.

And at one point I was like, you know, I'm a very laid back person.

She's like, what are you talking about?