Quotes

The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.

I think that's when life began for me: when I started to follow my dreams.

I tried to take advantage of what I could in Philly. But when it was time to move on, I moved on to New York. There, I booked a series regular role on 'One Life To Live.' I played a character named Deanna Forbes. She was my first big job. It was on daytime TV. And it was a great opportunity until that show got canceled.

All my life, I call myself wanting to be a lawyer because of Clair Huxtable. But the real dream was to be an actress.

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

There were points I wanted to stop acting. We got so busy and didn't get to see our friends a lot, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm kind of over this.' But then we started really having fun on 'The Suite Life.'

We chose NYU because their arts program was great, and they're a prestigious institution, but really because you're in a city. You're involved in a completely different way of life. You didn't feel trapped within a campus or in a bubble.

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough that I know how easy it is to fall victim to that sort of arrogance and cockiness that celebrity culture can bring about, in young men especially.

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.

That's why I've always loved country music. Whether it's sad, pumps you up, or it's breakup songs, it's all real-life things.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

I want people to know that I am having fun. That's the biggest compliment I can get is when people tell me I'm having a blast out there - if they only knew. I'm having the time of my life every night.

What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

After 'Yevade Subramanyam', I figured out that I want to make movies that would have a lifespan and be useful in some way.

I have been able to balance work and my personal life, and with the presence of a partner, I am stronger and better prepared to face the ups and downs.

I never had many girls in my life.

I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies, and just be happy with the small joys of life.

Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I have the fear of losing everything. At times, I get these reality checks which make me aware of what a privileged life I lead.

'Premam' moved me; it was almost like seeing life play out on screen.

To me, love is everything. I can't think of living without it happily. Only when it's there in my life do things happen smoothly for me.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.