Archie Panjabi Quotes

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• 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.

  Archie Panjabi

  Careers, Black, Acting

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

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• My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

  Archie Panjabi

  Mother, Able, Teach

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• I have been extremely proactive in putting myself up for characters that may have been meant to specifically be Caucasian. You bring an interesting angle to the character that isn't written.

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Interesting, May

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dialect Coach, Voice, Mysterious

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

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• The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

  Archie Panjabi

  Fall, Parent, India

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

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• 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.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Feet, Important

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• 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!

  Archie Panjabi

  Fashion, Nice, Hair

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• I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dog, Children, Married

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• I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

  Archie Panjabi

  Home, Creating, Meals

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• I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

  Archie Panjabi

  Believe, Play, Long

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

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• When I started out in the '90s, there were not many people of color writing, directing and producing - hence, the roles for people of color were few and far between. There's still few roles in England [where she's from].

  Archie Panjabi

  Writing, Color, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I loved eating and I did put on weight. I never actually felt fat until I started going for castings, for auditions.

  Archie Panjabi

  Weight, Casting, Auditions

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• I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Joy, Postman

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• I love roles where I have to transform myself.

  Archie Panjabi

  Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

  Archie Panjabi

  Ethnicity, Years, Hollywood

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

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• I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

  Archie Panjabi

  Children, Careers, Parent

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

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• I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

  Archie Panjabi

  Nursery, Dedicated, Stuck

  "Archie Panjabi: 'I love roles that transform me'" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Smart, Wife, Decision

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

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• My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.

  Archie Panjabi

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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

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• Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.

  Archie Panjabi

  Dream, Baby, Class

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• As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Short Life, Grateful

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• You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

  Archie Panjabi

  People, Asking, Way

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

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• There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.

  Archie Panjabi

  Mother, Mean, Introducing

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• I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

  Archie Panjabi

  Believe, Psychics, Needs

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• Coming to New York is like a big hug, everyone is so welcoming. There's something about here, everyone makes you feel so at home. I miss my family of course, but I don't miss London that much. I was worried, but I feel really at home. Everyone says that who comes here from London, but I didn't believe them.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Believe, Home

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

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