I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

Medicine has always been my calling.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

When you're in a big family you have to hustle all the time. But I think that's a good quality to instill in your children, for whatever they have to get.

I cannot take away the fact I am a small-town boy from India, from a lower-middle class family, and was actually standing in front of De Niro - not on an equal level, but as an actor, on the same pedestal.

There is a great degree of comfort with your family when you're on a TV show.