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Naveen Andrews

(1969) Actor United Kingdom

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Naveen Andrews is an actor from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About Naveen Andrews

Born: January 17, 1969
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Actor

About Naveen Andrews

Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British and American actor. He is best known for his role as Sayid Jarrah in the television series Lost (2004–2010), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as winning a Screen Actors Guild Award along with the cast. He has also appeared in films such as The English Patient (1996), Mighty Joe Young (1998), Rollerball (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004), Planet Terror (2007), The Brave One (2007), and Diana (2013). In 2022, he portrayed Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Naveen Andrews

Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to…

America

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I have absolutely no interest in the tabloids or reporting of the royal family.

Family

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I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of…

Change

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I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Media

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I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's…

Attractive

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The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

Money

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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing…

Blind

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My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they…

England

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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

Home

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My mom made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

Accents

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Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

I think

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People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.

Accepting

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I would have liked to have traded places with Jimi Hendrix for a day just to have that kind of mind in…

Psychology

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In general, I try to avoid anything that I'm in. I've been that way for awhile. I don't know why. You have…

Trying

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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

Academic

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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.

America

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They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a…

Dad

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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Chance

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I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I…

Knowledge

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If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

Artificial

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Men are the weaker sex and retain their immaturity, it seems, to the grave. It's like a built-in design fault. You can't…

Anything

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We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with…

Dogma

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It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

Always

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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you…

Buzz

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With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's…

Dead

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