I love roles where I have to transform myself.

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.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Let Obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier, and I think we're probably in that position where we'll just let Obamacare fail.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.