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" Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge. "
Act
Acting
Fridge
" Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me. "
Going
Oh
Because
" Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film. "
Always
Tongue
Mother
" I decided to go and find India on my own. So, I hired a cab for a drive round old Delhi. I was knocked off center by the sheer energy that goes into daily survival. "
Find
Go
Survival
" If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again. "
People
Never
India
" I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it. "
One Day
Find
Good
" I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day. "
Day
Every Day
Better
" I jumped at the chance of doing 'Holby.' It's a great show. "
Great
Great Show
Show
" I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox. "
Holiday
Travel
Listening
" I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be. "
Grandfather
Children
World
" I'm not a practising Muslim. "
Muslim
Practising
" I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam. "
Islam
Religion
Which
" I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians. "
Career
Great
Result
" I was lucky enough to be launched into the marketplace with the blessing of a series like 'Jewel.' "
Lucky
Blessing
Enough
" I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights. "
See
Go
Iceland
" Most families are dysfunctional. "
Families
Most
Dysfunctional
" Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything. "
You
Anything
Playing
" Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch. "
Come
Village
Up
" The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.' "
Listening
Doing
You
" There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing. "
Conversation
America
People
" There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant. "
Also
Racism
Kid
" When I was 13, I decided I was British and was going to stay that way. "
Decided
Going
British
" When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester. "
India
Down
Air
" When we were discussing 'Holby City, 'I told the producers that I wanted the Art Malik character to be honourable, and my other requirement was that he be a Muslim, because we need Muslims on TV. "
City
Art
Because
" When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears. "
Will
Go
Colour
" You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016. "
Diversity
Past
Society
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