Kumail Nanjiani

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.

So now I'm starting a new job and I'm nervous.

I will tell Emily like, hey, I'm actually kind of nervous about this one.

I'm a little scared.

And that's been so helpful.

Doing Old Mary, you know, I was really, really open about how scared I was.

That's the Broadway play.

I'd never done a play in my life.

I was very, very open and communicative about how scared I was going into that with Emily and with the other people, like with the director, with the other actors.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

I remember I did a live show years ago and someone asked me, she's like, she's like, how are you so confident?

And I was like, what that is.

It's crazy that someone would think that about me.

I do not, I feel more confident now than I ever have in my life, just because, you know, Emily would often be like, and this is a very nice thing to say, it sounds like I'm maybe talking myself up, she'd be like, I wish you could see yourself the way other people see you.

Or the way she sees you.

Or the way she sees me, yeah.

I mean, the way she sees me, you know, she's so wrong.

But,

Yeah, it was it was really, really I would not say any of those experiences were joyful and it was all completely my fault.