A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

I have lost 18 kg. Now if I lose anymore weight, I will vanish.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

Passion gives me emotional strength... Passion means power!

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

Never abandon your personal message. No matter what comes your way, remain dedicated to that which you hold close to your heart

A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them.

Love holds the key to every heart.

In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren’t only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.

My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.