After 'Rock On!,' when I started acting, and I sang in the film, people asked me, 'What was the need to sing in your film?' and things like that. I really don't have an answer for it. In terms of what made me do it? It just felt like the right thing to do.

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

'Dil Chahta Hai' was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

Everything I do is gauged under the shadow of 'Dil Chahta Hai.' Even 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Rock On,' which are very urban films. So I am always seen through that lens.

If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn't spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it's her prerogative when she wants to speak.

Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.

It's only when a project or film doesn't work, that you think about what you could have done differently - whether you chose unwisely, or was there something in your application in that role, as an actor, as a director or as a producer, that you could have done better.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.

Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.

I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought as possible without worrying about the risk.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

It's amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.