Cricketers have to perform in front of millions, and there are no retakes. If then you become a hero, you deserve all the accolades coming your way.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

I can also romance a guy if I like the character and the script. Obviously, only in the film!

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

I wanted to be a cricketer. But I was not skilled enough to be a national-level cricketer.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

Given a chance, I would love to romance Tabu. I wouldn't mind doing a film with Manisha Koirala, either. Or Madhuri Dixit.

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

Four days a week, I do gymming, four days marital arts. Once a week I normally play lawn tennis, and once a week I horseride.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.