“Failure affects me hard.”

I don’t know how to be professional. But I always enjoy what I do.

I give my best to each role that I do.

All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.

When I listen to a basic thought, I try to visualise the cinema in it. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes boyish, sometimes amateurish. It is a trial and error method. But the bottom line is that I want to entertain the audience.

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I’ve seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

People know me through my characters. I don’t think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director’s son, and I am married to an actress.

I am a person who doesn’t like responsibility of any kind. But I do enjoy what I do.

It doesn’t matter to me how I look on screen. What matters to me is how I connect with the audience.

When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don’t consider myself as a natural actor – or a good one at that.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

My thought process is in Malayalam. So, every time I have to work outside Malayalam, the process is a little stressful. I have to translate my Malayalam thoughts into English and back to Tamil.

I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

Most of the films that I do help me learn something.

I’ve always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

Our choices affect everyone around us. There is no such thing as “individual risk” or “individual wellness.

Cold, hunger and the shame of poverty are more likely to affect one’s psychology.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

I just watched cartoons for three years, and that had a strong affect on me.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.