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“I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.” quote by Dev Patel — Download Open image

“I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.”

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You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

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Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

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I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

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The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling,…

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I visit India a lot.

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I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

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Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

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I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

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The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal…

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But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake…

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Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

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