I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

Language does not make one an elite.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing.

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.