Quotes by Naveen Andrews - Page 1

I can't change a light bulb.
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Light Bulb
Bulb
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The unknown is always frightening.
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Frightening
Unknown
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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America
British
Thinking
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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.
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Prepared
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I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.
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Grateful
Sobriety
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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Academic
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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Chance
Live Life
Live Your Life
Life Live Live Life
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Lets just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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Changed
I Have Changed
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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Home
Honestly
Los Angeles
Angeles
Los
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Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
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Grown
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I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.
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Royal
Royal Family
Tabloids
No Interest
Reporting
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Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.
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Just One
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That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.
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New Testament
Old Testament
Testament
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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Naveen Andrews / Actor
Media
Reality
Reality Tv
Thinking
Tool
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If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.
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Unattractive
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It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.
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Always Me Important
Breaking
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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Actors
Starting
Thinking
Truthful
Stretch
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In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.
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Thousand
Thousand Years
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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Conscious
Decision
Indian
Language
Mum
Accent
Languages
Conscious Decision
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People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.
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Important
People
Soul
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We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.
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Common Humanity
Differences
Race
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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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Bloody
Guard
Main Character
Tv Show
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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.
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Feels
Mean
Uneducated
University
Time Feel Never
From Time To Time
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If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.
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Artificial
Date
Contrived
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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.
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Good Parent
Parent
Proud
Thinking
Failed
The One Thing
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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Buzz
Giving
Hot
Perfect
Too Much
Buttered
Gives
Meal
Slice
Toast
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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.'
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Episode
Pilot
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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.
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Attractive
Knows
Soul
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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.
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Sad
Members
Cast
Dead
Literally
Script
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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.
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Home
Believe
London
People
Home Believe Me
Belong
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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.
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Ethos
Grief
Experienced
Immigrant
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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.
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Immaturity
Grave
Retain
Weaker
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Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.
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Behaviors
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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.
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Christian Right
Dogma
Fundamentalism
Islamic
Victims
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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.
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Great Done Your
Chain
Great Children Parents
Lesson
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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.
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Home World Me
Jump
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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.
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Relationship
Joyous
Play
Release
School
Traditional
Early Age
Fraught
Plays
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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.
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Horrible
Nightmare
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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.
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Women
Beautiful
Character
Older Women
Want
Wrinkles
Like
More
Face
Younger
Women Beautiful Face
Older
Makes
Some
See
Than
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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.
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Entity
Modern Family
Perceive
Royal
Royal Family
Historically
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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.
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Friendship
Eldest
Gorgeous
Mate
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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.
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Endure
Mum
Office
Post Office
Racism
Railway
Academics
Post
Terms
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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.
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British
Casting
Color
Mainstream
Not Interested
People
Writing
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In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have to watch, professionally, the things that you're required to watch, but it's not something that I would sit down and watch, again and again.
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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.
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Dormant
Lay
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TV is an extraordinary medium. 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.
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Opportunity
Film
Hours
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