Adeel Akhtar

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

— Adeel Akhtar

I'm someone who's quite anxious and stresses out a lot and gives the impression that I'm laid back.

— Adeel Akhtar

I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which…

— Adeel Akhtar

With 'Utopia,' definitely it's more the idea of trying to put across a message rather than just entertaining the audience. It's entertaining…

— Adeel Akhtar

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

— Adeel Akhtar

When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people…

— Adeel Akhtar

Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer…

— Adeel Akhtar

I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that…

— Adeel Akhtar

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try…

— Adeel Akhtar

There's part of me that would love to wear a ruffly collar and do a period drama, but that's not going to…

— Adeel Akhtar

I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put…

— Adeel Akhtar

Because of the Internet, we're all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push…

— Adeel Akhtar

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as…

— Adeel Akhtar