Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.