“It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.”

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life.

In my quiet, I was working something out.

If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

I will always be in love with love.

I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The person who was holding me back from my happiness was me.

Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Even in the face of tragedy, a stellar person can thrive. No matter what’s going on in your life, you can overcome it! Life is worth living.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I’d say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.