Quotes

My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.

I have always believed that my life is more important than my profession and I have never ever allowed my profession to dictate my life.

The movie Gul Makai' will showcase the earlier life of Malala and how she was forced and stopped from going to school. It's a proud story of a girl fighting for her own and other girl child rights to education in her village in Swat Valley. I am glad I was chosen to play this role in Gul Makai.'

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

I have always believed that awards are like accessories to a car. They are very similar to the rear view mirror in a car, which gives you the confidence to drive. They sure mean a lot; however, they are not the be-all and end-all of life.

I am not at all a serious person in real life.

Playing the Mahatma at the start of my career has made a difference in my life as I had read a lot about him at that point of time. I still read a lot on him. His opinion about life and politics has affected a lot of persons, including me.

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

I don't often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I've kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There's nothing wrong with settling, it's definitely an easier life than the one I've chosen to live.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

Listening to 'Raising Sand' was one of those turning points in my life that really made something click in my brain.

I grew up in a nonprofit theater company in the heartland of central California, so I am very aware of the importance that company had not only on my life but my community.