"Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do."
"It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them."
"I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose scripts, I take out the garb of an actor-slash-star, and I consume the script as a layman."
"I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that."
"I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright."
"In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor."
"I was very immature when I married."
"I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry."
"I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris."
"I approach every film as my first film."
"It's good to be an outsider."
"For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters."
"Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else."
"You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not."
"I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television."
"My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film."
"I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters."
"I am very bad with numbers."
"A good script can come from anywhere."
"What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money."
"I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan."
"I know I have become a star, but I don't want to believe it."
"I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful."
"Your family can keep you grounded, make you keep things real."
"The running thread of my career has been different scripts."
