If you ever ask me what my all-time dream character is, my answer will be Mia Tansen, the great composer-musician in Hindustani classical music. And ideally, the film should be directed by a person like Bhansali who is a great director and has a marvellous sense of classical music.

It isn't easy being a star kid that way when you have to tackle all the pressure and still make your mark.

The love in the old days had a certain grace, quintessential feel to it. Now everybody is busy in their phones.

If there are things that some think are wrong, then people have the right to speak up.

India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.

I couldn't dance to save my life.

I was born with two left feet.

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.

Madhuri should do more films. She should do a film with me where she is romancing me.

I love Hyderabad. People here always given me a warm welcome.

I have always given my 100 per cent to the characters I believed in.

I have never been choosy throughout my career.

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

My father was a journalist. He used to write for 'Blitz' tabloid.

I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.

Rituparno is a very simple director. I have never seen Ritu shouting at anyone. The whole atmosphere on his sets is so relaxed that you don't feel that you are working.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

Drinking makes people go out of control.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

There are no places better than Mahabaleshwar and Khandala to spend one's free time.

I have acted with Rajinikanth as his elder brother in 'Uttar Dakshin,' and since then, we have been close.

I don't drink anymore.