United Kingdom, Sept. 9 -- Aziz Ansari doesn't own a smartphone or have an email address.

The 42-year-old actor-and-director hasn't used online communication for over a decade and prefers to use his home telephone than the basic "flip" handheld device he carries with him.

He told People magazine: "I'm starving myself [when it comes to tech].

"I have a flip phone. I block pretty much every website from my computer. I don't have an email address. I have a landline. I love the landline!"

Asked how long he's resisted going back to a smartphone, he said: "I don't know. I stopped using email during season one of Master of None, so that's like almost 10 years."

However, Aziz noted a life free of email isn't "practical for everybody" and not...