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" I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights. "

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" Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film. "

" 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. "

" Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Most families are dysfunctional. "

" If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again. "

" I jumped at the chance of doing 'Holby.' It's a great show. "

" 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. "

" I was lucky enough to be launched into the marketplace with the blessing of a series like 'Jewel.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a practising Muslim. "

" When I was 13, I decided I was British and was going to stay that way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch. "

" I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day. "

" I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam. "

" 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. "

" I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox. "