Quotes

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

When you come from a star family in the South, you're expected to be really good in dance and fights. It's really important that you open up as an actor in front of the camera.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

About him as a father, I can only say that he has been nothing less than a hero in real life to me and an inspiration like no other. I'm just in awe of his life and I am so grateful to be a part of his life.

Every son needs his father to be a hero and my father is like a superhero!

'Mr. Majnu' is just my way of saying that I am trying to start off from the basics.

To be honest, my first film Akhil' was a disaster and to come out of the negativity it brought, it took a lot of time.

For me, Hello' was more of getting my confidence back and gaining the audience's trust.

It takes time to gain the audience's trust. I am taking one baby step at a time.

Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.

I am open to doing multi-starrers if something exciting comes.

'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.

My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.

I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

I know how to write fiction well.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.

I think immigrants, when they're stressed, think that there's something wrong with America, when it's really just difficult to leave a country and all that you know.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.