“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.”

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

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…

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.

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.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.

Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Scottish Theatre’s greatest success story of recent times.

You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.

I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn’t know if I’d do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.