Kumail Nanjiani

I'm the only one who

I think that crew felt pretty confident about the place they were in at the time.

Like someone like Martin, who I'm still really good friends with,

Knows he's a very good actor.

He knows that he could do a lot of things.

He has a lot of confidence in that, and rightfully so.

He's phenomenal.

I've told him since then, I was like, I wish I was present enough to learn from you for those six years.

Because that's the thing I value most now.

You can't control, if I'm acting in something, I can't control how it's going to turn out.

I can control my experience of it, and I can control what I learned.

And I really, really genuinely, I know it sounds cliche, every job is worth it to me because I always learn something about myself or I pick up tricks from other people, all that kind of stuff.

I'm feeling like I still have a lot to learn and I cannot wait to get at it.

I truly, truly like, you know, Silicon, we were talking about Silicon Valley.

Like I said, I wasn't present enough to learn.

I wish I had been.

I feel like I personally, I mean, I learned a lot.

I truly did learn a lot, but I learned a lot later looking back.

I felt like I internalized some of that stuff when I was already done with it.

But doing Chippendales with people like Anna Lee Ashford or Murray Bartlett or Robin, all these amazing actors, I learned so much.