In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!

Haters are a drop in the ocean. Theres that much more love

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

If there is something to steal, I steal it.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Ive been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.