Quotes

• • 1.”Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it’s not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.”

• • 2.”As an actor, I would never agree if a newcomer doesn’t give me a final word on the script. If it is well-written, then you need not speak to me. I will speak for you.”

• • 3.”If I look like a six-pack replete warrior in ‘Tanu Weds Manu,’ viewers are not going accept me.”

• • 4.”If anybody accuses me of being rich, I give it back to them because I had a poor economical background. I worked my way up, and I am an exemplary citizen, and I always do what is good for my nation.”

• • 5.”I struggle on many fronts on having to move to a different level, having to cater to constantly evolving audiences.”

• • 6.”I am very choosy about my films. I don’t do a film just for the sake of money.”

• • 7.”I’m a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don’t dwell on long-term goals.”

• • 8.”I don’t want to buy a jet plane. I don’t want to live with an entourage.”

• • 9.”A film star is a film star, and you can’t take that away. Hence, I don’t think about money when I do films, but I will do it for TV like the way I do it for endorsements.”

• • 10.”Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.”

• • 11.”I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.”

• • 12.”I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did ‘Saala Khadoos,’ being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.”

• • 13.”Nobody is in the world should be deprived of the joys of eating.”

• • 14.”I am a south Indian, so I speak Tamil.”

• 15.”I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don’t lose it unless it is justified.”