I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

I played Shah Rukh's nephew in 'English Babu Desi Mem,' which was my last assignment as a child actor. I was about eleven then. He's one of the best actors I have ever worked with. He really helped me with my lines and expressions. He's such an inspiration.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.