Kumail Nanjiani

I'm just listening to you, watching you, and reacting to you.

That's really exciting.

Emily always says, your brain doesn't know anything.

Your brain is stupid.

And I think with acting, with all my work, writing, obviously, there is an intellectual aspect to it.

But really, it's...

whatever is happening, whatever's reacting is when I'm at my best.

So Franklin and Bash, full of fear the whole time.

Silicon Valley, full of fear almost the whole time.

Full of fear.

Again, all the people around me were so good.

And, you know, doing Veep was, you know, I auditioned with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and we improvised and I got that part.

And then we did like a bunch of rehearsals.

So I went, yeah, but full of fear, full of terror.

And then now, when I start a new job, there's always nerves, right?

And the other thing is, when I was going to these jobs full of fear, nobody knew but me.

I wasn't telling Emily.

I wasn't telling Emily like, hey, I'm really nervous for this.

I just didn't think that that was a possibility.

I thought saying it out loud would make it more real, but saying it out loud takes its power away is what I've learned.