If you look back on my career, I scared a lot of people with my villainous role in 'Naam.'

I began my career with Gujarati and Hindi plays in 1973.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

The jokes I was always attracted to, and that I would tell for the longest, were jokes where I cared about the subject. Whenever I wrote a joke where I didn't care, even if it was really funny, the third time I told it, it would lose steam.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.