“I’ve grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.”

I always think before I speak. I’m not the sort who will just say anything that comes to my mind. I’m a very emotional and sensitive person. But I’m also very strong and know my mind well.

If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.

I can go round the clock without sleep.

If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

Everything that creative people think and do is from the heart.

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don’t believe in that either.

I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

Some memories & experiences are difficult to articulate but live in your heart forever.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.

I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

Unfolding into yourself, what a tender, delicate thing.

I think I’m finally growing up – and about time.

Ambition is the great fire, it’s the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.

Each and every bad seed counts, for even if they don’t survive or grow too beautifully, a bad seed allows you to re-evalutate the others and appreciate them even more.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Laugh and grow strong.