Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

TV is an extraordinary medium. You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time, there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie, that often, I would say.