I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

My goal is that after I am dead and gone, I want people to remember me for the person I am.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.