You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.

All I can say is that it's amazing what you can accomplish when you're young and foolish.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.