Quotes by Sanjeev Bhaskar - Page 1

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Fitness
Fatness
Might
Video
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It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Blood
Cash
Giving
Receive
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My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.
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Mum
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I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Defence
Mechanism
Terrible
Thinking
Hospital
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I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village.
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Pakistan
Village
Ancestral
Cross
Member
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Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.
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Challenges
Daytime
Drama
Good Drama
Schedules
Good Drama Comedy
Schedule
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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
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Funny
Actors
Comic
India
Speak
Timing
Urdu
Actor
Michael
Served
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There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.
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Beef
Culture
Parent
Avoid
Nod
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My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.
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Britain
Remains
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I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.
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Sports
Breathe
Give Me
Giving
Muscles
Team
Aching
Team Sports
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The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
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Continents
Five
Ideas
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'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.
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Continents
Surprised
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I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.
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Believe
Doctors
Instruments
Peasants
Tunes
Beat
Doctor
Officially
Stick
Save
Tune
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My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'
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Doctor
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With 'Mumbai Calling,' I was surprised it was ITV that went for it because it didn't traditionally seem like the kind of programme they would make.
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Mumbai
Programme
Surprised
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One of the benefits for me of starting late in this business is I realised that if acting was the only thing I could do, I would struggle, so I always wrote as well.
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Benefits
Realised
The Only Thing
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We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
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Accounts
Mum
Part Time
Ran
Both My Parents
Factory
Supervisor
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The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.
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Racism
Worst Moments
Years
Life Moment My Life
Lets
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I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
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Kids
Desperate
Embarrassed
Indian
School
Way
Assimilate
Stood
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During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.
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Down And
Gloves
Remember
Fridge
Overnight
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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
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Hard Work
Migrants
Parent
Workers
Both My Parents
Fifties
Migrant
Work Hard
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Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.
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Arthur
Britain
Casting
Sunday
Trading
Asians
Bold
Historically
Proved
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When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.
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Goodness
Gracious
Lines
Python
Quoting
Surreal
Allen
Bonded
Dated
Utterly
Wonderfully
Woody Allen
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I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.
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Way
Work Out
Years
Answered
Behaved
Certain Way
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Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.
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Casting
Contemporary
Disappointed
People
Representation
Television
Theatre
Always I Am Better
I Am Better People
Better Always I Am
Million People
Telly
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On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.
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Imagination
Drama
White
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On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non-white.
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Employing
Anyone Else
Mr
Extend
Imaginations
Just As Much
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I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.
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Dad
Dying
Inheritance
Issues
Odd
Life Family Experience
Migrant
Taxed
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Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
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Asian
Different
Weekend
Anonymous
Ate
Everyone Else
Quick
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I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Monty
Python
Satirical
Literary
Greatly
Influenced
Monty Python
References
Saucy
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It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
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Asian
Comedy
Goodness
Gracious
Humour
Structure
World
Always World Me
Referred
Shown
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I think family, friends and a sense of community give you greater happiness than money. But, of course, one has to have a minimum on which to live. The joy I get from sitting around and having a laugh is immeasurable - much greater than anything that I have ever bought.
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Happiness
Giving
Greater
Joy
Laughing
Minimum
Sitting
Thinking
Bought
Course
Immeasurable
Laugh
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If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.
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Feelings
Looks
People
Stride
Always Me Look
Accent
Empire
Everyone Else
Look Me People
Similar
Vaguely
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Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
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Kids
Home
Writing
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Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.
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Equal
Equal Rights
Schooling
Alan
Commute
Directing
Disrupt
Producing
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I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Jobs
Believe
Expensive
Expensive Clothes
Holiday
Rainy
Rainy Day
Saved
Holidays
Hoping
Suppose
Replace
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I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.
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Burden
Milk
Paper
Shelves
Summer
Round
Saturdays
Supermarket
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Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for Spamalot and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.
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Cutting
Exercise
Keys
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I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'
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Chance
Firsts
Prove
Thinking
Chances
Second Nature
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I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
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Indian
Stage
Vocabulary
Way
Ahead
Cultural
Everybody Else
Manner
Reference
The One Thing
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Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Diet
Arriving
Catalyst
Cutting
Rewards
Unhealthy
Life Good Fear
Abject
Aspects
Fitter
Rehearsals
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I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.
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Black
Character
Philip
Writing
Chances
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My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.
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Teacher
Bored
Consequence
English Teacher
Hindi
Mother
Reading
Teacher Mother Me
Teachers
Quickly
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My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.
Sanjeev Bhaskar / Comedian
Accepted
Addiction
Children
Comprehension
Doctors
Laziness
Mum
Doctor
Essential
Immigrant
Practical
Tv And Film
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