As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!

There are always people who are inspired by you, just because you are who you are.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility Young people hereabouts unbridled now Just want.

I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

BECAUSE SELF IS NO LONGER OUR GOD, SAFETY IS NO LONGER OUR CONCERN.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.