I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

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.

They had survived, when so many had not. And no one ­else could understand what it was like to bear it, unless they had lost as much.

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment.

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

All athletes would be better if they eat better. Junk in equals Junk out.

'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.