I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.