“My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for ...” — Christian Camargo Quote

My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

Shakespeare gives you these clues - these little pieces of gold dust, I call them. They tell you so much about the story, the character, the drive, the intentions. It's like a gift.

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

I don't take a backseat to nobody. That's just my mindset.

Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.

I remember driving home from a movie - it wasn't 'Halloween' but another one, maybe the original 'Omen' - and I dropped my friends off, and it was also broad daylight, and yet I was sure that, like, Damien was in the backseat or something like that.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.