Quotes by Art Malik - Page 1

I'm not a practising Muslim.
Art Malik /
Muslim
Practising
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Most families are dysfunctional.
Art Malik /
Dysfunctional
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Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.
Art Malik /
Fill
Fridge
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I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.
Art Malik /
Indian
Love Work Hope
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We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.
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Loss
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I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.
Art Malik /
Iceland
Lights
Northern
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I jumped at the chance of doing 'Holby.' It's a great show.
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Great Show
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The bagel budget for 'Sex and the City 2' could pay for 'Ghosted.'
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Pay
Sex
Sex And The City
Budget
City
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There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
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Ignorant
Racism
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I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.
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Religion
Faith
Blind
Blind Faith
Islam
Demanded
Questioned
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How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.
Art Malik /
Rich
Scripts
Texture
Marks
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My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'
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They Say
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'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.
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New Generation
Offers
True Lies
Reinvented
Generation
Lies
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Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.
Art Malik /
Indian
Village
Camera
Watch
Stick
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
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Better Person
Therapy
Better Day Person
Better Day Every Day
Freud
Day Better Every Day
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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Fifties
Sixties
Unpleasant
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I was lucky enough to be launched into the marketplace with the blessing of a series like 'Jewel.'
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Blessing
Marketplace
Jewel
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I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.
Art Malik /
Travel
Holiday
Old Days
Used
Love Music Listening
Love Music Travel
Days
Cassette
Tapes
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I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.
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Attach
Cell
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I was doing 'Homeland' and read the first two episodes, and all I wanted was episode three to know what would happen next.
Art Malik /
Homeland
Episode
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I always think it's kind of fun to get to the airport early, check in, and then go and have a meal before getting on the plane.
Art Malik /
Airport
Check
Meal
Plane
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When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.
Art Malik /
Colour
Female
Food Chain
Bbc
Chain
Disappears
Further
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Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.
Art Malik /
Austen
Jane
Me Anything Never
Me Never Anything
Says
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I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
Art Malik /
No Idea
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I do sometimes cook myself, and I do enjoy it, though it does depend what's in the fridge, and filming can mean I don't have much time.
Art Malik /
Time Myself Sometimes
Filming
Depend
Fridge
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Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.
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British
English Speaking
Film
Indian
Mother Tongue
Projects
Tongue
Portrayed
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To see the difference between when I came to Britain in 1955 with what it is today, to see how the sub-continent has been embraced, it is quite extraordinary.
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Britain
Extraordinary
Embraced
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I decided to go and find India on my own. So, I hired a cab for a drive round old Delhi. I was knocked off center by the sheer energy that goes into daily survival.
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Cab
Delhi
Sheer
Survival
Center
Round
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The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'
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Tracy
Easiest
Spencer
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I grew up in Balham in south London, and my best friend's brother was Geoffrey Robinson, who of course later became paymaster general, but at that time, he was working in politics.
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Best Politics Time
Geoffrey
Robinson
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Today, loss is something everybody feels. It could be the loss of a friend moving away. It could be your best friend moves to the other side of town or his family does. It's a loss.
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Best Friend
Loss
Moving Away
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I grew up in a Britain where 'Paki-bashing' was around in my late teens from the National Front. We also had 'Pakis Go Home,' and even 'Jewel In The Crown' attracted this sort of comment.
Art Malik /
Britain
Comment
Teens
Attracted
Crown
Go Home
Jewel
Late Teens
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My all time favourite films - one is 'Mary Poppins,' and the other one is 'Pakeezah.' 'Pakeezah' was an Indian film. The beauty of 'Pakeezah' was that it had a soundtrack which was pure poetry.
Art Malik /
Favourite
Mary
Pure
Mary Poppins
Soundtrack
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When we were discussing 'Holby City, 'I told the producers that I wanted the Art Malik character to be honourable, and my other requirement was that he be a Muslim, because we need Muslims on TV.
Art Malik /
Discussing
Producers
Honourable
Muslim
Muslims
Requirement
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My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they are like stuffed parathas and can contain anything from potatoes to poppy seeds.
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Accomplished
Seeds
Contain
Poppy
Stuffed
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I'm a grandfather now, and when I watch children's shows with my two-year-old grandson, Arlo, I'm delighted because it's completely non-traditional casting. It feels like a utopia. How the world should be.
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Casting
Delighted
Grandfather
Utopia
Non-Traditional
Two-Year-Old
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My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.
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Holiday
Art Great Me
Confronted
Recognised
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Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.
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Dickens
Fancy
Turns
Charles
Round
Movements
Prince Charles
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I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.
Art Malik /
Colour
De Niro
Sorry
Apologise
Asset
Niro
Robert
Robert De Niro
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You can watch TV and see experts of all different colours and hues. But the minute you get past nine o'clock and you're in primetime drama land, it's like entering another world, one that doesn't reflect the diversity of the society that we have in Britain in 2016.
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Britain
Different Colours
Drama
Entering
Experts
Nine
Society World Past
Colours
Society Past World
Hues
Minute
Reflect
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When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.
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Air
Breathe
Heat
Humidity
Manchester
Actor
Aware
Idea
Full
Crown
Fact
Jewel
Studio
Weighty
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There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.
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Dull
Lazy
Certain Things
Terrorists
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