Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

I'm getting some really good work. And because I'm delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

I have this huge lion tattoo embossed on my arm. I was a little worried as to how we would cover it up. But my makeup man covered the tattoo with makeup. It took close to two hours.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.

I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go. Call that a strength or a failing, whatever.

I have done all kinds of roles, but Tony Montana's role in 'Scarface' is something I would love to play.

I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Losing Dad was like losing the bearings of my life. My sisters took it badly, but I took it worse. Throughout my lean phases, Dad was like a solid rock, supporting me, whether it was work, or my jail term.

I think the best thing about my short-lived political career was that I saw the interiors of Bihar and UP. That is the real India, and, being an Indian, it was really sad to see our own people living in such dismal conditions. It was a real eye-opener.

I work out like a maniac, three times more than anything I did in the past. I am off carbs, salt, sweets, and live on a fish diet. And I promise I am not going to indulge in food again. See, when I was 49 years old, I was fine, but the moment I touched 50, I felt that something within me had changed drastically. My metabolic rate dropped.

I would never go into the 'Bigg Boss' house even in a hypothetical situation. I have been to jail, so if I were to be confined in that house, I'd get rattled.

My entire family has been with the Congress right from the time of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress is in our blood and as a loyalist, I am always there for Congress.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

With the kids around, this is a different world to me. I spend a lot of time with them till they go to their playschool. I wake up early, have breakfast with them. I come back from work and am with them again till they go to bed by 10 P.M. Touch wood, this is what I wanted always.

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.

Mad science is my middle name.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

Street-casting - people like Katie Jarvis in 'Fish Tank,' spotted having a row with her boyfriend on a railway platform - has helped make actors raise their game. They have to.

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

I was a cocky kid.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form the body of the individual is made new at birth but the soul is ancient the stuff of stars.

There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.

I don't believe in psychology.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

I have a weak stomach. My wife is a doctor, so she finds it funny that I actually pass out when I get my blood drawn. I physically can't stand gore on screen. I can't stand blood and guts. Not for any puritanical/moral high-ground reason. I just don't want to black out.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Dreams are the language of God.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.