“I do only what I like. If we do something we don’t like, we will become someone else.”

Let me make something clear: I can’t do anything in particular to make others laugh. I do what is necessary for a character. The body language of the character may make others laugh.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It’s good when you exist only on screen. I don’t want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.

Roles don’t fascinate me. It is the narrative, the screenplay that is fascinating.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

It feels good to hear good things about yourself.

When you are talking about human emotions, stardom doesn’t matter.

Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.

Offscreen, I’m a private person. I’m shy and don’t know how to face the public.

All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.

I have always maintained that the audience should take a call on this. Its up to them to decide whether they want to see a pirated version or not. They should understand the effort and amount of hard work that go into a film.

In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for ‘Velaikkaran,’ I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.

I think it would be a dream for any actor to play someone like Changampuzha.

I like movies made by Spike Lee – doing those films out of the U.S., that is really daring.

I would like to do movies of all genres.

We lost sanity in vanity chaos breeds insanity.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

A creature lives deep within, rotting far beneath my skin. Touch the pain inside of me, just to let my heart be free.

We were playing hide and seek with our shadows simply pretending to grasp for love we could not find in ourselves.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.