I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.