A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

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.

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.

Language does not make one an elite.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

A batsman goes out and is then in until he gets out. This goes on until the last batsman is out, apart from one who is still in and therefore not out.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.