In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ( "New York at arm's length of desire" )

The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.

my enemies don't scared me .. but the people who say I love you

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.