Naveen Andrews Quotes
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.

Quotes to Explore
-
A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
-
My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
-
I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
-
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
-
More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
-
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
-
We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
-
I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
-
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
-
I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
-
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
-
When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
-
I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
-
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
-
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
-
My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
-
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
-
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
-
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
-
I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.
-
I am not posh. I went to a comprehensive school.
-
When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.
-
They say women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake a whole relationship.
-
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.