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" Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have. "

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" I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to. "

" I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you. "

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" I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about. "

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" I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places. "

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" I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world. "

" I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone. "

" All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning. "

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" Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys. "

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