Naveen Andrews

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

“I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.”

“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.”

“That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.”

“I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.”

“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.”

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

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

“It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.”

“If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.”

“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.”

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