“Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.”

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Language does not make one an elite.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: ‘You see,’ he says, ‘now that’s formalism.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.