Dev Patel's Quotes

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!

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

I visit India a lot.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

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.

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.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

'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?

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.

What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.