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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• 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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• 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 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 remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

  Archie Panjabi

  School, Thinking, America

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

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• I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

  Archie Panjabi

  East, Want, Littles

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• I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

  Archie Panjabi

  Fighting, Thinking, Community

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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 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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• A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me.

  Archie Panjabi

  People, Giving, Challenges

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.

  Archie Panjabi

  Brother, Boys, Blue

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Wife, One Day

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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