I have always been the black sheep of the family. I am the middle child, with an older and a younger sister.

My character has to be alive. It can't be a mere prop, and it has to have a life of its own. I need to have that space to play around and the scope to interact with the people around me. That freedom would give me a lot of margin to improvise with.

'Khoobsurat' introduced me to this huge, amazing audience so close to my home. In a lot of ways, it has changed my life, but the game keeps changing.

I wish to direct someday.

I like playing characters in the real world.

Television has the power to push for change. We need to push it in that direction.

TV needs to be the medium for progress, not degeneration. There needs to be more programming for children. Plays need to become more responsible.

I'm married to the only woman I've loved, and I'm happy.

Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.

I am genuinely happy that other actors are entering the industry and gaining popularity. There are enough opportunities in the business for everybody.

There is so much to learn that I find the entire debate that Pakistani actors shouldn't work elsewhere senseless. By working in other countries, we're able to move out of our comfort zones, learn more, and bring that back to our own industry.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I've expanded my skill-set through a very limited number of projects and been very lucky with the outcomes most of the time.

As any professional, you go where your work takes you.

Old-world romance underlines my relationships, even with my son and the dog.

There's a strong bond I feel with my wife. It's not that I haven't come across other attractive people in my life, but no one else was willing to put up with me.

I have the gift of the gab, can talk and perform, but so can others. I can only attribute it to the fact that somebody up there likes me: it's remote-controlled by God.

You learn a lot about people when you live together.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I wanted to do animation, so for lack of available career counselling, took up Bachelor's in Computer Science, but managed to get only C grades.

It's always a surprise to me when someone comes up to me and appreciates my work. I have a very limited body of work, so I feel very lucky to have gathered such an audience. I'm very thankful to them. I'm extremely grateful to them for showing such love.

I've grown up watching cinema from around the world, and there are films that have scenes that are far steamier than what we are required to do on screen.

My way of deciding whether a film is worth doing is if you can get through it all in the first read.

In Bollywood, they've got their systems in place. It's a monster machine that's churning out, like, 400 films a year, consistently. They're able to efficiently process things.