I don’t have a Facebook or Twitter account.
-Dev Patel
You’re never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.
-Dev Patel
I’m an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.
-Dev Patel
‘Slumdog’ was my first movie, and I had never been to India before – I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?
-Dev Patel
I don’t think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.
-Dev Patel
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, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.
-Dev Patel
I’m not a Casanova in ‘The Newsroom,’ by the way – just another hard worker.
-Dev Patel
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
-Dev Patel
Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
-Dev Patel
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 of ‘Grease’ for me!
-Dev Patel
I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.
-Dev Patel
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.
-Dev Patel
The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you – that’s been hard to deal with.
-Dev Patel