Indian Quotes

If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.