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1. Well, to tell you honestly, I am still waiting for much better roles. And I am slightly surprised that despite seeing the quality and hard work, the Hindi film industry is still not creating projects that I can be a part of.
2. I do not like to label the characters I am doing or even myself as a particular type of actor. I try to do different kind of roles which are not the same ‘hero’ or ‘villain’ kind.
3. There are many actors who have not been trained, but self-taught means one cannot be limited. It means you’re continuously learning.
4. I’m not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I have researched, formed and invented.
5. Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.
6. If the way I’ve performed a scene isn’t to the director’s liking, I discuss it, try to understand why he doesn’t like it, and incorporate the suggestions. But sometimes I also take a very strong stand.
7. Every choice I’m making now is so that I can keep working for the next 30–40 years in this industry. These are not creative choices. These choices are to stay in the business, for many years to come.
8. For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor’s life; I’d feel very half-baked if I was only doing one and not the other.
9. Yes, I play a cop in Amit Kumar’s ‘Monsoon Shootout’ where Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the villain.
10. I do work on stage as an actor. I do films as well. Television, I haven’t done much.
11. I don’t discuss my journey in the Hindi film industry since it is something personal to me.
12. You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.
13. I only like playing people who are completely different from me. I try to mould myself into that character.
14. But I’m very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.
15. I put a lot of pressure on myself, I can’t say today is a bad day, I can’t do that to myself. Whatever it takes, I have to deliver a scene.
16. My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.
17. Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don’t start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.
18. The cast you are working with is important because it involves a give-and-take relationship. For me, when you have strong performers, multiple things happen, the magic of creation happens. That’s where you build the craft.
19. I remember watching ‘The Lunchbox’ that released around the same time ‘Ship Of Theseus’. Both films found space in the independent cinema circuit. But at a personal level, ‘The Lunchbox’ is one of the favourite films.
20. I like to enter my characters through a physical form first. The first thing I find is the regime of the character — when he wakes up tomorrow, what activities does this person engage in — that’s my entry point. Once I get that, then it becomes easy for me.