“If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.”

If I ever have a child. Insh’allah I will. I wish it’s a girl. I want a girl child.

All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

I’m not possessive, I’m caring. Once you realize a person doesn’t want that much care, you automatically back off.

Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don’t turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour.

I am not born to just become an actor.

Don’t throw out buzz words without really knowing what is going on behind it.

For me acting, comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don’t act at all. I think that to feel the character’s pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don’t remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for?

There are people who want awards because it changes the perception of the audience. But I’m not into all that.

Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don’t have to show that I am working very hard.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

There are actors who can pull of a writer’s lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say ‘rain,’ and it started raining, and then he would say ‘song,’ and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God’s lap.

I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

I don’t expect to win awards while working in films.

The title ‘Dohchay’ is very perfect for the film. It is used very well in the title track. If you see the film, you will understand it.

I could not make mistakes while choosing films when I started out.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host’s grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.