“Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.”

I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I try never to be governed by fear; that’s how I choose things.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That’s where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

I’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.

I’ve been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

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

I’ve seen maturity evolve more through experience than age.

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

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

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

I was at the Gopichand Academy since I was 10.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.