It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?