Quotes

I really want to do a film with my uncle and my cousins. I'm sure it will be really interesting to work with them.

It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

I'd rather point a finger at myself than others.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

The Deol family is very close knit and emotional.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and forget about it.

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh.

I have cheated. But I don't regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn't have ever done it if I were serious about the girl.

I don't even know if I'd get married. Time will tell.

People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer, I'm on.

I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.

I am not anti-marriage.

The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that... it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.

I might say 'let's get married' because I am not rigid, I live moment to moment. These are my views and it is person to person, one should not get influenced with what I am saying.

I'm more comfortable watching 'Dev D' with my mom than a film that makes a woman an object whose only purpose is to dance provocatively.

Fortunately, I got critic and audience acceptance much earlier than industry acceptance.

It's scary to work with family, alongside my brothers and uncle. I can't imagine myself screaming at them even in front of the camera.

I grew a very early distaste for fame and glamour because I saw what the spotlight and attention can do to you as a family, so to speak.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.