Hrithik Roshan.

I Really Would Want to Create and Shoot an Anthem with All the Flags of the World. That Film Would Be Played in Cinemas Across the World Before a Movie Begins and Have All the People from Various Countries Stand up for Each Other’s Flags as ‘One World’. Can You Imagine How That Would Unite Us! Can You See the Pride in That! How Beautiful That Would Be!

My Grandfather, My Nanaji, J. Om Prakash Is My Other Role Model. He Is Someone I Have Tried to Emulate and I Hope to Be Like Him When I Am His Age. His Silent Strength, His Wisdom, Is Amazing. I Haven’t Come Across a More Well Read Man Than Him. There’s a Peace and Calm and Serenity About Him That Is Wonderful. When I Am with Him, I Instantly Become a Student. I Just Sit and Watch and Listen to Him and He Always Has Something Educating and Inspirational to Tell Me… Something from His Past, Some Incident That Happened, or Some Book That He Has Read. He Always Tries to Instill Some Good Quality in Me. I Look Forward to Meeting Him and Sometimes When I Am Not Able to Meet Him, I Feel Starved for His Company, of the Things That He Teaches Me. He Has Influenced Me a Great Deal.

Creativity Should Never the About Money. True, Money Is at the Centre of Our Existence. but It Is Not All-important. There Are Other Things Which Make Life Richer, Which Have Nothing to Do with Money. If You Measure Money Against Your Desires, You Will Always Be Poor. but If You Measure Money Against Your Needs, You Will Always Be Rich. Money Should Be a Means to an End, Not an End in Itself. People Always React to What They See. and They Give According to What They See. If They See a Hungry Man, They Will Give Him Food, If They See a Poor Man, They Will Give Him Money, If They See an Angry Man, They Will Shun Him and If They See a Promising Man, They Will Give Him Opportunities. That’s Human Instinct. Instead of Showing Your Anger and Frustration and Helplessness at the Struggle You May Be Going Through, Show Them Your Promise and Do It with a Smile.Be Honest with Yourself. You Have to Be Brutally Honest with Yourself First, to Be Sure Whether You Have It in You to Make It. That Was the First Thing I Did. I Took a Good, Hard Look at Myself to See If I Had the Potential.There Was an Acquaintance of Mine Who Struggled in the Industry for About Five to Six Years. He Never Got a Decent Job. When He Was 29, He Left India and Went to America and Today He Is a Millionaire. I Used to Keep Telling Him, Maybe This Is Not Meant for You, Maybe You’re Meant for Something Else. but He Was Relentless and He Was Hung up About Making It in Films. Now He Tells Me, ‘Hrithik You Were so Right. I Wish I Had Not Wasted Those Seven Years of My Life!’ My Point Here Is, If You Are Not Getting Where You Want to in the First Two Years, If You Have Not Even Started Off, Then There’s Something Else Meant for You. Chase Another Dream!

‘Half Your Life You Work at Becoming Famous. and When You Do, You Hide Behind Dark Glasses!’ – Al PacinoAgain, This Applies to an Unfortunate Few. There Are Certain Actors Who Are Very, Very Shy People. When They Start Off, They Realize They Can Be Extremely Confident Behind the Mask of a Character. When They Become Stars, the Fame and Popularity Compels Them to Stand Before the World as Themselves with the Same Amount of Confidence and They Are Unable to Do That Because They Are so Used to a Mask! Suddenly When Stardom Happens, You Become Greater Than the Character and Everywhere People Want to Know About You, Want More of You. Many Times We Don’t Feel That Confident and so We Don’t Want to Be in That Limelight. We Want to Hide Away Because We Don’t Consider Ourselves as Good as What We Are in the Film…Greek God Good Looks, Perfect Emotions, Those Are Actually Just a Mirage.Even I Went Through the Same Thing Right After Kaho Naa…Pyaar Hai. but Once I Accepted That I Could Never Be as Good as What I Portray on Screen, I Found a Lot of Peace Within. It’s Okay Not to Be as Good. the Image Is One Thing and a Human Being Another; It’s Also Very Hard to Live up to Another Image. Infact, I Would Go so Far as to Say That It’s Futile. Basically It Is Very Unintelligent If You Get Mixed up Between the Persona and the Person. of Course It’s a Trap That a Lot of Fools Fall into as Actors.Somewhere This Trying to Hide Away Arises from Insecurity Too. You Want to Make Your Fans Happy. You Want Them to Be Impressed by You and You Don’t Think That the Way You Are in Real Life Is Good Enough to You Put on an Act. You Speak with a Deeper Voice or You Start Walking with a Swagger, a Little Frown on Your Forehead Just to Show What a Lot of Weight You Have on Your Shoulders Because You Are a Star. I Know This Because I Was Doing Exactly These Things for a While After Kaho Naa…Pyaar Hai’s Release.One Day, I Was in Delhi Surrounded by Fans, Signing Autographs and Playing Raj from t

It’s Not a Privilege to Be Born as a Rich and Famous Man’s Kid, Mostly It’s a Disadvantage. You Tend to Become Lazy and Complacent and Used to Luxury. Where Hrehaan and Hridhaan Are Privileged Is in Their Being Born to a Father Who Has Experienced Ups and Downs and Acquired a Humble Sense of Life and the World. and If You Have Space, These Few Additions Are Also Great.

I Guess When You Detach Yourself from Issues That You Thought Were Humongous and Put Yourself in Perspective, Like When You See That Even the Solar System Can Be Just a Dot and Insignificant in the Universe, It Kind of Gives You a Spiritual Edge, and so the Only Thing That Becomes Important in Life Is Feeling Good About Yourself. so Whether You’re Searching for Things That You’re Passionate About on the Ground Floor or 100Th of the Evolution Ladder, Your Soul Will Only Be Stimulated If Your Eventual Goal Is Happiness, Not Fame and Riches.

Hrehaan and Hridhaan Are Pure Angels and Pure Delight. Unfortunately, They Are Not Naughty and That Keeps Me a Little Concerned as I Too, Was Not Naughty as a Kid.

There Will Be Durations Where You Will Be Out There and Not See Them for Days on End and That’s the Time You Should Feel Stronger About Yourself That You Are Working to Provide for Them. When I Miss Them Too Much, Instead of Feeling Too Bad, I Rephrase It and Tell Myself That I Am Doing This as I Am a Provider. and They Will Be Better People Knowing That They Had a Strong Father Who Went Out There and Provided for Them. Love Should Never Disempower You. It Should Empower You Even More.

I Am so Full of Love That It’s Not Possible I Won’t Find Love.

I Was the Most Unlikely Candidate to Become an Actor.