“Maybe the country doesn’t pray for me like they do for Sachin Tendulkar, but I know I’m on a good wicket as well.”

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

I’m try-sexual. I try anything that’s sexual.

When people call me God, I say, no, I’m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I thank God for happiness and sadness. If you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is.

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

As an actor you’re only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don’t like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money. An actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You’ll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep is the struggle of life.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband. A toy and a diamond always works.

You can love me or hate me but you can’t ignore me.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

It’s easy to be ignorant but it’s very intricate to be aware.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love.

They say time is measured in days, months and beards.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I’ve always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I’ve always been a proud person, I’m very patriotic.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.

I’d known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.