Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Saeed Jaffrey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British actor Saeed Jaffrey.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Saeed Jaffrey was a British-Indian actor. His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over 6 decades and more than a hundred and 50 British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He played an instrumental part in bringing together film makers James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and acted in several of their Merchant Ivory Productions films such as The Guru (1969), Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) and The Deceivers (1988).

British - Actor | January 8, 1929 - November 15, 2015

Source: Wikipedia

Though I was born a Muslim, my father's job as a medical officer meant that we travelled a great deal and I went to Hindi schools, Muslim schools, public schools, C of E and Catholic schools.

Saeed Jaffrey

I'm a Capricorn.

Saeed Jaffrey

Whenever I walk down Oxford Street I see thousands of ties and there is always one that winks at me and says 'get me out of here,' so I buy it.

Saeed Jaffrey

It is essential to forgive. Otherwise it stunts the growth.

Saeed Jaffrey

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that honestly and conscientiously.

Saeed Jaffrey

I never view my ladies as conquests.

Saeed Jaffrey

I tell my stories the way I tell them in real life, the way I talk or describe things.

Saeed Jaffrey

You see, Hinduism is not confined to the strictness of the desert, but belongs to the universe. Judaism, Christianity and Islam become limited by desert boundaries, but Hinduism is much freer - there are no set rules.

Saeed Jaffrey

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.

Saeed Jaffrey

I find that the more you achieve, the more modest you become.

Saeed Jaffrey

The years up to the age of 40 are Capricorn's apprenticeship years, when you get to know love. Life. Letters. The world. After that comes achievement and recognition.

Saeed Jaffrey

You don't have any credibility unless you are working on 12 films at the same time.

Saeed Jaffrey

Many scores of ladies have come into my life and gone away happy.

Saeed Jaffrey