You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.