My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.

When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

I have to put my career first.

I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.