When I'm not wearing makeup, when I'm not in front of the camera, I can be just Hrithik. I can sit with my watchman or with the spot boy and chat with him. I do that. Which is why I am able to differentiate between the person I am and the persona that is projected. It's not the person people are crazy about, it's the persona, it's the magic of the movies and you have to understand that.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

I told my sons to remember to always thank people for compliments.

We all work to succeed in whatever we choose to do in life, so every success only pushes me to do better and I am constantly trying to improve my craft as an actor.

My parents through to my grandparents have seen and experienced all shades of life, the good and the bad, and they always faced every situation fearlessly. We share a unified bond which I also instil in my own family and it is with all of this that I am able to go out and do good work.

Where there's a chase or whatever, it's not being thrust into it.