Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character…

- Navid Negahban

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

- Navid Negahban

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she'd get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything…

- Navid Negahban

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a coup…

- Navid Negahban

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

- Navid Negahban

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

- Navid Negahban

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

- Navid Negahban

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are …

- Navid Negahban

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

- Navid Negahban