I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it’s important to me to invest time with family. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
I remember sitting in school and thinking, ‘I don’t know why I’m here, because I know I’m going to act and I know I’m going to America.’ Archie Panjabi Read Quote
I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn’t too high-pitched American. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible – you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in ‘East-Enders’ because film wasn’t even a dream. The community were very much like, ‘How can you want to act? It’s such a low-class profession.’ Archie Panjabi Read Quote
My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn’t be able to teach and she did. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, ‘I’m going to introduce you to so-and-so – If you don’t like them, fair enough.’ Archie Panjabi Read Quote
I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for ‘Archie’ to read for a boy… I’ve had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn’t approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, ‘There’s no such thing as ‘can’t.’ Archie Panjabi Read Quote
I am still married, yes – no children. I have Benzo, though; he’s my dog, a Lhasa apso. Archie Panjabi Read Quote
