“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.”

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.

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.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

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

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

Every exploration is an appropriation.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space.

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn’t that insane? It’s good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!

A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies…

It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.