"I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces."

--

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Archie Panjabi

#Careers Quotes #Black Quotes #Acting Quotes

“I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.”
“You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.”
“The theater is the thing I love doing most.”
“You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a believer to be serious about my religion.”
“My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.”
“We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians.”
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.”

You may also like:

Alan Cumming
Actor
Carla Gugino
Actress
Chris Noth
Actor
Christine Baranski
Actress
Jaimie Alexander
Film actress
Josh Charles
Film actor
Julianna Margulies
Actress
Matt Czuchry
Actor
Ashley Johnson
Actress