A biography for Dev Patelhasn’t been written yet.
“I visit India a lot.”
“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?”
“But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!”
“I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.”
“Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.”
“Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.”
“I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.”
“The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.”
“Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.”
“The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.”
“I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.”
“I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.”