“I had to take a decision. Do I pursue dance, my passion, or help my mo...” — Amala Akkineni Quote

“I had to take a decision. Do I pursue dance, my passion, or help my mother out? The movies beckoned.”

“My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.”

“Nelson Mandela, Dada Vaswani, Harsh Mander, Shabana Azmi - I admire their humanitarian work. But sadly even Nelson Mandela could not keep corruption out of his cabinet and within a year, I am told, the victims of apartheid turned into perpetrators of corruption on their own people. Greed has no boundaries of colour or country does it?”

“I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.”

“Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.”

“A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.”