“I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.”

There are moments in a film when the written word for you, becomes the written word for the Universe.

When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath… will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!

When your Son starts wearing your shoes and tells you which path to take he is no longer your Son he becomes your friend.

The Indian team does not need any best wishes – they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

A drop of water with love. From they that love; to them that love.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don’t know why something’s happening to you and you don’t know how you bounced back.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I’d love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I’m 58 now. So I have to play her father.

An epic era has drawn curtains, never to happen again.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

You don’t see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Me and God we don’t get along.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I believe in the person I want to become.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.