Naveen Andrews Quotes

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Naveen Andrews

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 17, 1969

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

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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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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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Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

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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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I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

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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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If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.

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I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

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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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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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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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