Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

Sometimes, it is an external force that makes you realize your real potential.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!

I have to be pretty close to what I am.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.