“We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that’s what you seem to have mastered. You’ve used silence to great advantage in the film. It’s brilliant.”

An actor is a fool for God !

When you wait in the admired company of he that created it.

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.

I keep making art out of his mistakes.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Every time I’m out and somebody tells me they love what I do, that’s what I do it for. That’s like my vice. That’s like my high. When people understand that this is who I really am, and to be appreciated for your craft .

I had a vision of bringing two cultures together, and I have said this in the past: my goal is to bring Morocco and India together through music and art.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Your artful hands, hold my delicate heart, tenderly gaze at it, as if its an art.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done.