“I know it’s very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.”

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.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it’s great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.