“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.”

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 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.

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…

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.

For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.

You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.