I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

An outsider can see some things much better.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

I do love you. And I never gave you anything less than everything I had to give. - Jenna Baker

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

Slander is the balm of malignity.

The way you write affects what you say.