Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don’t do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image."

My set on why I won’t have kids, and especially the mention of how expensive it is to have kids nowadays, always gets a great response."

My only success is that I am alive.

My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.