Zitat des Tages von Art Malik:
I jumped at the chance of doing 'Holby.' It's a great show.
Most families are dysfunctional.
I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.
I'm not a practising Muslim.
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.
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.
I hope to work in Indian films again. I would love to.
Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.
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.
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.
'True Lies' reinvented me in the eyes of a new generation and got me offers.
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.
If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again.
I was doing 'Homeland' and read the first two episodes, and all I wanted was episode three to know what would happen next.
I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.
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.
There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
