Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing of rags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches.

Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Nobody could disappear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.

Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over, That is what we have or what we are left with.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

We cannot change the history of the past.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Let's face it, the subject of campaign finance is not always scintillating. But it's incredibly important.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.