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

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

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.

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.

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.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

I did actually sit down with a blank sheet of paper once. I think the phone rang and that was the end of my literary career.

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

With growth comes change.

I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?