“Stability a situation in which something is not likely to move or change.”

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.

I don’t use any techniques; I’m not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

It’s nothing really. It’s the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That’s a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say ‘it’s in!’

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

The only person you have to face in the morning is yourself.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat,’ they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.