“Cricket is very simple… you play till you can sustain.”

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven’t seen God. But I think that one’s beliefs are one’s God – and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Speed can’t always get you wickets.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

I always breathe cricket.

All artists are crazy.

I have no political aspirations. That’s it.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

The hunger to win must not die. The appetite has to remain big.

I don’t want to play a prop in a film.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

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.

I don’t think I’m like any of the characters I’ve played. They’re all really far from who I am.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can’t shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I’d be a really happy person.

It is as absurd to say that a man can’t love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

I know that my look is more “toothpaste model” as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.