“I’m a huge Aamir Khan fan. I love Aamir, so everything he does is brilliant. We expect something different from somebody like Aamir, whether it’s in promotion, or whether it’s in a film, and plus it has RajKumar Hirani.”

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven’t been brought up to create havoc in other people’s homes.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I have always been in a relationship. I don’t remember the time when I wasn’t in one

It’s a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven’t manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

Heroine’ is about a declining and imbalanced superstar – a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She’s a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she’s very fragile.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say you are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera. I reply, I can’t help it; it’s what got me where I am.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that’s the best way for me at least.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it’s like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

I’m obsessed with speed. I’m always asking myself, ‘Why can’t we do things faster? Why can’t it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?’

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.