I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.
I am not somebody who feels comfortable socialising at parties where many film stars gather and endlessly chat, because I am quite introverted.
In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
