I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

What's it going to be then, eh?

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.