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.

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

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.

he placed his hands on my mind before reaching for my waist my hips or my lips

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.