“When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of ...” — Raza Jaffrey Quote

“When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.”

“Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.”

“Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.”

“When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It's not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.”

“Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.”

“It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.”