A biography for Naveen Andrewshasn’t been written yet.
“If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“The unknown is always frightening.”
“Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.”
“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.”
“The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.”
“If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.”
“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.”
“I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.”
“It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.”
“I can't change a light bulb.”
“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.”
“I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.”
“Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.”
“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.”
“Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.”