I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

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.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

In some subsequent episodes, certain individuals have certain knowledge of certain events that they wouldn't have, if they didn't have access to the future.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

Losing time is harder than death, as losing time keeps you away from Allah and the Hereafter, while death keeps you away from the worldly life and people.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.

The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden