A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

Two is always better than one.

I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.