When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.