I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice because you see what the end goal is. When you have a dream and you want to get it done, you can't wait on other people.

I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.

You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.

You have to stick to your guns for what your vision is.

I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.

As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.

There are bigger stars out there than me. But I went through my s-, as people do as they get older.

Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.

Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

Not doing attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) while experiencing the unfolding of karma is religion.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.