Naveen Andrews

“I can't change a light bulb.”

“A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.”

“We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.”

“My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.”

“You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time: there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't reall...”

“I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.”

“I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.”

“Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't do anything about it.”

“I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.”

“I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.”