“Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?”

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It’s a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren’t in your hands.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

My strength would be my honesty and my passion towards my work.

An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn’t challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can’t completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn’t do well, like ‘Byomkesh.’

If you spend time with your loved ones, you get the energy to do your job better.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

Frankly, I’m an actor right now because of Shah Rukh. When I was in school and even when studying engineering, I used to watch his films.

The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don’t have any opinions.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: you’re everyday, ordinary life will begin to seem far more extraordinary.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self-analysis, and experience.