“There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.”

When you’re younger, it feels like you have to please the entire world. You don’t.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can’t help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I’m quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I’d say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

If music be the food of love play on give me excess of it.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

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.

And music the best friend of your mind.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

If music be the food of love play on give me excess of it.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

It’s a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan . I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.

The world is no more what it was in the times of quiet love… Everything is called Status nowadays and it goes on the internet like a rule.

Frankly I’ve never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an ‘icon’, ‘superstar’, etc. I’ve always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

Riding a Harley is a world of its own.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

I’d just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.