It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

Everything eventually ends. We all eventually die. That's why every day we have is so special. The fact that we only have limited amount of time is what makes life precious.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

He has the etiquette of a frog

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.