"My dream has come true. He has become a superstar. I am the happiest person in the world today as Sivaji is being released. Maybe I am happier than Rajnikant's wife."

"Two decades after he opted out of an indifferent run in Hindi films, Rajinikanth conquered Bollywood in his own way in 2010. The Robot set the box office on fire, reaffirming his super star status"

"He never let me fall. In 2003, when I wanted to leave everything behind, it was Ramnath Sengupta who cajoled me back to the material world"."

"The war between the two fan clubs stopped only about 15 years ago. We both told them to stop after there were stray incidents of violence on both sides. Considering fans have killed each other for our distinguished predecessors, MGR and Shivaji Ganesan, our fans can be considered pacifists (laughs). I went ahead and set a new precedent. I turned my fan club into a social service organisation."

"There was an incident early in our careers when he was riding pillion on a motorbike with me. When I skidded, Rajini asked if I knew how to ride. I assured him even if I fell, I wouldn't let him fall."

"And most of them were hits, though we did have failures. We've done three films for our mentor K. Balachander. I've also done guest roles in Rajni's films. I'd do anything he asks me to, no question of refusing him."

"Rajni and I have been leaning on each other's shoulders for so many years. In fact, once during a shoot in Singapore, we did just that. The director didn't know it was just an excuse to doze off in-between shots (laughs). We would be roaming all over Singapore, all night. We returned at 3 am and were on the sets for a 6 am schedule. We caught up on our sleep, on the sets."

"Rajni is a phenomenon. Both of us were young actors who started from scratch. He was the bus conductor with acting aspirations. I was the clapper boy. It's quite strange, but our paths as actors were always intertwined."

"I'd do anything he asks me to, no question of refusing him."

"I realized the wow factor of my dad then. I cannot recall when I started becoming his fan but I remember every first day, first show of him, I have been on the chair whistling and enjoying his films. So, I think, he is him. One thing everyone knows about him is not hidden. How he is at home and how he is at stage, how he is with everybody else, he is the most honest human being you can ever find so ya, I think I am blessed. I can say the world I am blessed ten thousand times and still I'll be saying I am blessed to be born to him."

"I think star children in general are born into that atmosphere. We are born into that scenario when things are larger than life. My father was a superstar when he got married. So, when I was born that was the only thing I saw. But during school days, the way others spoke with us, that is the time when we start thinking and we start wondering about things and asking questions and then we realize the wow factor,""

"The biggest superstar, Rajnikanth sir! Unko puri duniyan chahthi hein. There are people like me who don't understand South-Indian languages, but still I'm a big fan of him. His style, his acting and his entire on-screen persona, simply blows you away."

"Rajinikanth’s story is straight out of the movies: Boy from the wrong side of the tracks makes it big. Born Shivaji Rao Gaekwad, he had a wild childhood and even wilder youth where his pranks got him into all kinds of trouble:The tale of how he moved from bus conductor to stage to screen is too well known to retell.there was a talent which his friends recognised and people noticed first on stage. His wild ways were temporarily tamed when playwright and director ‘Topi’ Muniappa offered him a chance to act in mythological moral plays. The story goes that he played the villainous Duryodhana so well, he was applauded by old men when he was ripping off Draupadi’s sarees."

"In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage that he had, I will write one."

"That's what happened in our career. He never let me fall. In 1983, when I wanted to leave everything behind, it was Kamal Haasan who cajoled me back to the material world."

"I have a brother in Bangalore. SP is my brother in Chennai."

"Sir, in K. Balachander's unit, the dialogue for an entire film was only this much."

"Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, he has overseen the development of that city"

"Yes, upon seeing some people during my visits to the Himalayas. They seem to have an inner peace and tranquility that we do not."

"I cannot be an ordinary man, move around like people do, go out eat in a restaurant or take a walk. Perhaps, this is what I have lost."

"Vanity is the new modern day slavery"

"If tolerance were bees then its hive is in India"

"Tolerance involves pointing out what you believe to be another's mistake while allowing them to find their own path, rather than imposing yours on them"

"Tolerance is the ability to accept another's views, even when you believe they are incorrect."

"I do art because it's my shot at eternity"

"I do art because I can’t convey certain ideas through other means"

"I create art because a single image can convey a thousand words."

"Change is impossible in a religion that thinks it’s seen the last prophet. Prophets come and go, and we have to change with them"

"Change is the greatest mental barrier, but once you overcome it, new opportunities unfold."

"Changing others is simple; changing yourself is the real challenge."

"Change others only after you have transformed yourself."

"The true happiness of a country is reflected in the eyes of its children."

"Happiness lies in family, pursuing your passions, and having enough money to enjoy both."

"If culture were a living body, festivals are its beating heart."

"Weddings are days when the unwed dream of theirs... and the wedded regret theirs."

"Weddings are what keeps customs alive"

"Weddings are occasions where couples make vows and promises they cannot keep"

"Weddings are festivals between festivals"

"Racism stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of human history."

"Racism is a sweeping stroke of the brush of arrogance to demean an entire race, merely to assert one’s own superiority."

"Racism is like blind men sitting in a dark room, convinced there’s nothing beyond its walls."

"racism is arrogance at the highest level"

"if Men are enslaved by the lure of money, women are by vanity"

"It’s when you’re losing that your true nature reveals itself. Be your best self even in loss"

"It’s when you’re losing that your true nature reveals itself"

"Youth is a chance to be the stupid version of yourself that you can laugh at when you're older and wiser"

"Is love just an illusion in the procreation of our species, then women are the magicians that cast it"

"Is love merely a cog in the wheel of the illusion of our species' procreation?"

"Live not for food, but for food for thought"

"Don’t be afraid of being alone. We were born alone and will die alone"