I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

What drove me to become the world's greatest bodybuilder is no different from what drives other athletes to become great tennis players or boxers or jockeys.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry

It requires a long time to know anyone.

I'm not one of those people who write all the time. Sometimes I'll go several months without writing anything. I'll sometimes second guess myself and wonder if I'll ever write another song.