Navid Negahban

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

— Navid Negahban

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish…

— Navid Negahban

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just…

— Navid Negahban

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater…

— Navid Negahban

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

— Navid Negahban

Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as…

— Navid Negahban

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect…

— Navid Negahban

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact.…

— Navid Negahban

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a…

— Navid Negahban

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

— Navid Negahban

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

— Navid Negahban

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot…

— Navid Negahban

You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why…

— Navid Negahban