“Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.”

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

It doesn’t always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you’re playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that’s sort of an expensive proposition.

And we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.

You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough.

Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.