But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!

I listened to lots of other kinds of music, but punk is what allowed me to actually play music.

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.