Naveen Andrews Quotes

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Naveen Andrews

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 17, 1969

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 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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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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I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

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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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I think you can achieve things in television that you can't achieve on film, and I think we managed to do a lot of that in the first season of 'Lost.'

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I can't change a light bulb.

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

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

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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

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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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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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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

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

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The unknown is always frightening.

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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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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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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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