My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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.
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.
I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I never saw an episode of 'Lost.'
I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.
If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.
I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.
I still have a great friendship with my eldest son's mum. She's my mate. We have this wonderful son who's 6 ft. 3, gorgeous, and I'm his dad. I've not been a total failure.
Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't do anything about it.
I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of 'Lost.'
With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's quite sad, really.
Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.
When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.
They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.
The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I don't do anything else, at least I've done that.
It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.
Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to get back to America. It's a nightmare feeling.
My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced.
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.
In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.
