Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Don't allow distance to truly separate you. Make your love last beyond the distance.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.

Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.