I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.
You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.
I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.
I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn't do well, like 'Byomkesh.'
I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.
No one was very surprised when I decided to become an actor.