Quotes by Raza Jaffrey - Page 1

'Homeland' is not a sensationalist show.
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Homeland
Show
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I miss London on nights in June or in October.
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June
October
Nights
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No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.
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Surprised
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I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.
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Fixing
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It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.
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Immediacy
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Work aside, I think would have ended up in the U.S. because I like being here a lot. I really do.
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Aside
Ended
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There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.
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Brilliant
Odd
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When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'
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Bombay
Musicals
Scenario
Workshop
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Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.
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Numbers
Smash
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Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.
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Smash
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'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.
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Relationship
Homeland
Depending
More Or Less
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I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.
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Broken
Fidelity
Filming
Littered
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
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Doors
Habit
Odd
Face I Am People
Face I Am Your
British People
Face Your I Am
Holding
Slammed
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There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.
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Homeland
Loves
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When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
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Wavelength
Opposite
Barrel
Hoping
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One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally - that's why it's a guilty pleasure.
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Gadgets
Guilty
Guilty Pleasure
Programmes
Download
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Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.
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Beats
Homeland
Opposite
Myself Character Your
Arc
Included
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