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

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

Wanting fame is a disease and one day I will want to be free from this disease, from this desire. Where fame doesn’t matter. Where just experiencing life and being okay with it is enough.

I’ve never looked to create an image where people fall in love with my face or style. It does cross my mind. But I’ve been trying to create a space for myself where I don’t depend on that.

When you are young you are fascinated by so many things. Some things drop, some stay. I can be without anything but I cannot be without nature.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

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 am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.