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

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.

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.

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.'

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are. Will you forever remind yourself, too?

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

If I have to write on an airplane or get up early to write or write late, you just gotta sit down. When you have the time, you have to be able to do it.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.