If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

My becoming a film actor was more a twist of tale than a chosen course because I dared not to think I could ever become an actor. I couldn't even walk up on a stage and say 'Thank you' when we were to receive trophies at our sports meets at college.

Anyone who has ever gone through anything like that, or lost a friend or a family member, they know that it's never going to leave you. But at the same time it gets better, and as time goes on it gets better.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.