Quotes from Naveen Andrews

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

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

When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.

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

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

If you've grown up feeling unattractive, I don't think you ever lose that. It never goes.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to get back to America. It's a nightmare feeling.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

The unknown is always frightening.

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 very attractive.

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

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

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

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.