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

In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have to watch, professionally, the things that you're required to watch, but it's not something that I would sit down and watch, again and again.

People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.

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

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

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