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

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.

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!’

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.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Do you know, it’s funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

If life isn’t about human beings and living in harmony, then I don’t know what it’s about.

I agree that faith is essential to success in life, but I do not accept your definition of faith, i.e. belief in life after death.