“In 20 years, you don't want to be famous. You want a sustained career.”

“That if you want to be famous, you take your dad's name. And I said the only persons I don't want to be famous by taking my name are [Aryan, his son] and [Suhana, his daughter]. Let the rest of the world do that.”

“I painted for 20 years without liking them very much, you know. I burnt them at the end of every year. For 20 years I burnt the whole bunch because I didn't want them to get in the market. And well, sometimes when I was starving, I used to sell one cheap, you know. But I always regretted it because you hate to think of a painting in somebody's house that you don't like well enough, you know.”

“If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?”

“The thing about dancers is they're a certain breed. You don't do it to become rich and famous, you don't do it to have a really long career or to be the star, you do it because you can't imagine your life not doing it.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.”

“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”

“And I don't want to mean anything to you,
I don't want to tempt you to be true.”

“There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.”