“My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play – regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.”

One of the great tools we use in acting is the idea of immediacy, that the audience gets to see you witness something apparently for the first time, so you create a lot of tools to kind of trick yourself into making it appear something is happening for the first time.

When somebody on a professional scale says “you did it wrong,” it has a pretty intense impact. If you don’t have some kind of opposing force to say, “that’s all right, that’s their opinion,” or, “I may have screwed that one up but I’ll do better the next time,” then you’re screwed.

If I had done ‘Titanic,’ it would have made, probably, $200,000 – worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

You’re giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that’s it. That’s all I’m interested in.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

I don’t want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

Interest in certain themes doesn’t mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I’ve killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it’s like to kill people.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

That’s what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart – still before I go on stage – crashing out of my chest. That’s thrilling to me.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . Four years have already past away since you left your native land, and this rural Cottage

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention and showbiz world).

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.