“The audience changes every night. You’re the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.”

We’re constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We’re finding it where we didn’t think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We’re finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we’re having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what’s possible on this planet alone.

Reality really is a theatre. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they often borrow each other’s sugar.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you’re first coming up and I think that’s good for you. Eventually, you get to express your real personality.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and think, ‘What was that?’

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something, Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

Choose To Be Inspired.

I’ve done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It’s a big part of mixed martial arts.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

I’m obsessed to extreme winners because I think there’s a madness to it. I truly believe that in order to truly be great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness. Quotes

Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor’s ‘Barsaat,’ they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.