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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.
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Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.
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My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.