I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

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.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

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.

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!