It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

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.

If you want to see God, simply look into the eyes of an animal.

If you play it safe, middle of the road with all the right notes, you might win. If you are unique and have too much personality, you might easily score a '0' in competition.

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

Deep listening helps us to recognize the existence of wrong perceptions in the other person and wrong perceptions in us.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool.