I spent my childhood in Delhi. I have met my wife here. I spent my life here with my parents and sister. It's been beautiful. But I have very fond memories.

Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.

I like to keep my birthday very relaxed.

I love playing intense characters.

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.

Not comfortable doing song and dance stuff as no normal person does in his/her real life.

In life, I have been a very lucky person; I have had a good married life, good friends, though I am not as educated as I would have liked to be.

What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.

What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

I am not a party kind of a person. I like to sit down with friends with a drink and talk.

I don't read online... I need a physical book in my hand.

I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

Being an actor in TV or movies is different. A film or TV actor, if put in theatre, won't know certain dimensions, while a theatre actor won't know certain things when he comes before the camera. So I think a film actor can learn emoting from this theatre counterpart, while the theatre actor can learn about camera techniques from the film actor.

When you have rubbish stuff coming your way, you have to let go.

Whenever I don't have anything to do, I play Candy Crush or Scrabble. We actors have time between shots, which we need to kill. And we cannot call friends or family, as you are called at a moment's notice. So you need to do something which you can dispose of immediately when called for a shot.

An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

I really liked Priyanka Chopra in 'Barfi!'

I was watching 'Heroine,' and I really liked Kareena Kapoor a lot!

I am worst when it comes to social media.

I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.

When I quit 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kyaa Naam Doon 1,' I left the show because I wanted to travel with my wife and spend time with her.

I always feel to do mythological and horror shows you need to be terrific actors. I am not that good.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

There was a time when one couldn't dream of being an actor if they weren't well-connected or they weren't a star kid.

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.

Scott Ritter is a very well-known archetype of a certain U.S. military officer. Very hard talking, very ambitious, zealous, and completely consumed with carrying out his mission. He's a guy who, throughout his career, I would say, did not break rules, but he worked around road blocks.

In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.

The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.

As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.