Naveen Andrews Quotes

United Kingdom, Actor
January 17, 1969

Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born 17 January 1969) is a British-American actor. He is known for numerous roles, such as Sayid Jarrah in the television series Lost, Kip Singh in the film The English Patient and Sanjay in the 2002 remake of Rollerball. For his role on Lost, Andrews was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006, a Primetime Emmy Award in 2005 and received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2006.

Also known as Television Actor, Film Actor, Musician

The unknown is always frightening.

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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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- Time
- You
- Just Because

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

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- America
- Think
- Myself
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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- People
- Writing
- Color
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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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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- People
- Believe
- Home
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
- May
- Proud
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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- You
- Perfect
- Too Much

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

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- Home
- I Can
- Los Angeles
The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

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- Money
- Things
- More
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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- School
- Age
- Parents
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

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- Small
- Poetry
- Loved
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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- Decision
- Mum
- Accent
Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

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- Bad
- Myself
- Now

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

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- Life
- Live
- End
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

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- Think
- Actor
- Starting
I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

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- People
- Bad
- Reality
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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- Time
- Believe
- Character