“I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for ‘Sadak’. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.”

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

There’s a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life.

I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.

I’m not a hero or a superstar. I’m an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other’s legs… To lose all of that for what? Who’s got the time? I’m having great fun working.

Hopefully, we’ll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films and I want to see whether 3 Idiots will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country…

My theory is children don’t do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Chilli ice cream doesn’t taste bad. But I wouldn’t eat it again.

I don’t mind being identified as any character as long as I’m doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles – from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn’t know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn’t happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.

My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do.

I think all phases of one’s career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

It took me a long time to get to where I’m at, in my career and as a man. I was going through my trials and tribulations in life, and it gave me the strength to tackle things that have come my way.

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.

One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company’s long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming’s famous points, “create constancy of purpose.” In his professional career,

I’ve been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I’m not dead!