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.

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.

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

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.

You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

A city full of art is a city full of wit!

The Times is getting more detestable (but that is too weak word) than ever.

It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.