“Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.”

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.

There is only one religion in the world-hard work.

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Live, laugh, love, every day to it’s fullest, for who knows, tomorrow, may not be.

My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it’s a Lux ad.

There is no issue that one cannot overcome. All problems have a solution!

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.

There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

If you don’t like something don’t do it, and if you’re doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.

Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

Being a father has been, my greatest source of pride, humility, inspiration & even achievement. It has taught me to choose innocent honesty over smarts.

I can still love my heroine like i did when i was 26. I can still do the same action scenes.

I don’t like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I’m told to. But I’m not trapped by it.

I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”

It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.

And when it’s sold to 50 countries or whatever, for me it’s a great deal. I make movies for an audience so if that audience grows, I feel really honoured and thankful for it.

I would love to work in international movies just because the talent all around the world is great.

There’s a lot of good talent and the audience base is bigger.

It’s basically how I choose movie roles. Would I like to see this movie? Is this movie important? Why would I do this? And Headhunters is a movie that I would like to see in the cinema.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.