I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

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.

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.

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.

The human heart needs only the bare elements to survive, the human brain wants to the limitlessness of tolerance. Finding yourself is a matter of pitching your tent in the middle.

Eyes closed on an open soul...the world starts from within its core towards its final frontier: the end surface.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

I mean it’s never a problem making out with Nina Dobrev, I mean that’s always really cool!

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

We're going off the rails on a crazy train.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.