Naveen Andrews Quotations

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

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

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

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

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.

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

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

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 couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

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

Lets just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

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

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

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled.

There is a slight difference, isn't there? It's quite shocking.

No one knows where the axe will fall next.

My dad was violent. Things were getting really bad and if I'd stayed, I might not be here now.

I hate watching myself on screen. It physically makes me sick, but tonight I have no choice and will have to bear it.

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

I think we're sort of pushing the envelope in that way. You won't see this kind of cast anywhere else. It's highly unusual, and if people can learn from that, that would be good.

We're dealing with an immense kind of pressure to keep the quality up. It's make or break this season, quite frankly. ... We have an audience now. We can't let them down.

We know that there's going to be some new people joining and that's great because you do wonder how much further they can take it before running out of ideas, ... How can it possibly sustain itself?

Up to now, things have been relatively decent, if you ignore the episode where Sawyer was tortured. But now things are going to get wild and a lot more violent for everybody. Life will become rather brutal.

I've always been attracted to older women because they know who they are. They look infinitely better to me.

There were no Indian actors from England of note earning money or having a career.

It's a nightmare feeling. England was such a s--t hole for me. I can never see myself living there again.

I never really felt like I had anywhere to call home because I didn't feel, even though I was born in England, I didn't think of London as home.

I don't know if I have really made it as an actor. I don't even look at it that way.

I feel a sense of responsibility to the Iraqi community and to the Arab world,

and is very close to him and loves him. But he's almost a mouthpiece for that kind of questioning What kind of God is that that would do these things?'

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

The unknown is always frightening.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us.