I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

I swallowed and bit my lower lip, "Maybe freedom is never truly free, as they say, " I said into his green eyes, "it comes with a price, and sooner or later, time will come to collect its toll.

What we call miracles is just what's supposed to happen. We either go with it or stand in its way.

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Nirvana is right here, before our eyes.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Let us not leave for tomorrow what we can do today. It is now that we must come unto Christ.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens