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I Do Not Choose To Be A Common Man…it Is My Right To Be Uncommon—if I Can…i Seek Opportunity—not Security…i Want To Take The Calculated Risk; To Dream And To Build, To Fail And To Succeed… To Refuse To Barter Incentive For A Dole… I Prefer The Challenges Of Life To The Guaranteed Existence, The Thrill Of Fulfillment To The Stale Calm Of Utopias….

Everyone Praises Sachin Tendulkar. He May Be A Genius In His Own Right But In My Book, Rahul Dravid Is The Artist. Dravid's Defence Tactics, His Strokes, His Cuts, His Grace Are Truly Amazing. I'd Like To Meet The Chap Sometime And Take My Hat Off To Him.

Most Difficult Thing In The World, To Write A Play. Do You Know The Story Of Shaw At The Fabian Society? H.g. Welles Said "i'm Terribly Sorry I've Missed The Last Five Meetings, I've Been Terribly Busy, I'm Engaged In Writing A Scientific Pamphlet On The Effects Of Radioactivity In 1984 And I've Produced A Novel, And Various Pieces Of Science Fiction To Do, And I've Had A Bit Of Personal Trouble, And I Had My Copy To Bring Out For The Newspaper." Shaw Leapt Up And Said, "i've Not Missed One Meeting, And I Have Written A Play!" Hardest Thing In The World. If It Were Easy They'd All Be At It.

I'm A Very Physical Actor. I Use Everything - Toes, Teeth, Ears, Everything. I Don't Simply Mean Physical In The Sense Of Movement And Vigour. I Find Myself Remembering The Shape Of A Scene By How I'm Standing, What I'm Doing.

I Can't Tell You About Acting. You Can Develop All The Skills, Voice, Gesture, Movement, You Can Develop By Exercise And Practice But Finally Fundamentally It's Mining From Yourself, From Your Own Personality, From What You Know. If You Can't Know It You Can Have A Good Guess By People You Know Or Books You've Read.