“I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.”

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That’s a feeling I always have when I’m auditioning.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Language does not make one an elite.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

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.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Sometimes truth is a kind of love not many hearts can bear.

Everyone you meet teaches you something; even if they come bearing pain.

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.