I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Language does not make one an elite.

All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.

I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done.

Just by being with me, I feel like I have ruined a lot of things around you.

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

The worst financial transaction you will ever make is selling yourself short.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

Pain is the biggest power of love.