I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.

I am a chilled-out person. But if people call me by my name, I hope they pronounce it right. I get called Baron, sometimes Varun, and my surname is often changed to Sobit.

I have always believed in the fact that it's your work that is going to figure out things for you. As long as you are true to your work, I think you are gonna be fine.

I am not the kind of person who makes his bread and butter on how hyped I am. I am an actor, and I do my job.

I am such a shy guy.

No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

I personally think that people should spend more time and money on their marriages instead of weddings.

I like to have my share of parties, but I am not the late night person. Not that we don't do parties at all, but that does not happen very frequently.

I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.

My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.

Birthdays, for me, are not really important. It is just like any other day.

For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of the character.

I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

I like it when stories are left open.

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.