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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."
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"I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops."
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"As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary."
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"I went to Second City, where you learned to make the other actor look good so you looked good and National Lampoon, where you had to create everything out of nothing, and SNL, where you couldn't make any mistakes, and you learned what collaboration was."
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"I've been a very lucky actor."
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"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."
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"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
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"Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything."
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"Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now."
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"Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors."
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim."
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"I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing."
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"I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft."
Dedication
"Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad."
Home
"The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin."
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"I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls."
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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."
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