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I think people connect better with TV. stars over film stars.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.