When I was growing up, there was a character on TV; there was a character stereotype: it was personified by Mel on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

I came to New York late; I was already past 30.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.