Art Malik Quotes
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Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.
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Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.
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Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.
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Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
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I'm not a practising Muslim.
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I always think it's kind of fun to get to the airport early, check in, and then go and have a meal before getting on the plane.
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I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.
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My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
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'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.
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Most families are dysfunctional.
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I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.
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Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.
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I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
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I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.
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The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'
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I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.
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There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
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When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.
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My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.
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We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.
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You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.