I've been sky-diving three times. I would go right now if someone told me the plane was about to take off. I love it. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I don't want to go bungee-jumping.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.

I'm slightly controlling. I'm an Aries and I like things to have an order. I get slightly disturbed and I get slightly distressed and flustered if things go awry.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.

I am calm most of the time.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

I never used to be as good, you get better. I've just gotten better and quicker at figuring out the joke.

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.