- In an ideal way, in an ideal world, myself and the director are one. And as you rightly say, in an ideal world, you can't see the horizon between sky and sea. I felt that the times with Spielberg [Steven Spielberg] on Schindler's List (1993), we were moving as one creature.
- on Winning the Oscar for Best Actor in Gandhi (1982): "If I knew I was going to win, I would not have gone dressed as a waiter."
- "As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."
- "Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."
- All the great writers root their characters in true human behavior.
- As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
- "Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough [Richard Attenborough, director of Gandhi (1982)] is very empowering, and you have to be extremely careful how you use that power."
- But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
- [about the holocaust] It's like a big, hulking monster squatting in the middle of our history and it won't go away.
- About actress Aishwarya Rai: "It was a pleasure working with Aishwarya in The Last Legion (2007), and her fans are in for a big surprise. She is an excellent and outstanding actor. She is a shining example of beauty from India, and I'm sure we will be seeing her in more Hollywood movies real soon " (August, 2006)
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