21 Quotes by Himesh Patel

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I was sometimes a bit lonely as a teenager. There was a cultural disconnect.

One thing that I struggled with was not corpsing when you're being thrown stuff that's absolutely hilarious by the other actors.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

In my essay for 'The Good Immigrant,' I write about how concerns about race and immigration crept up on me a bit because of how I grew up and my background - I was quite fortunate, really; I never got the rough end of the stick with a lot of that kind of stuff.

I personally am going to look for stuff that interests me and either has very little to do or has the right thing to do with my ethnicity.

When I was on 'EastEnders,' I still had a paper route until I was 21 and left home.

I went to America for the first time with my mum when I was 7, and I loved it. I remember wanting to see the Hollywood sign, and then, there I was, shooting a scene right by it for 'Yesterday.'

When my dad visited me while I was doing a play in New York City two years ago, I took him to see 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' Now I'm going to his house. It's surreal.