In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

An outsider can see some things much better.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

Don't settle for anything other than your passion - if you're lucky enough to find it.