I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in my hands, for two hours. And I was happy doing that.

I want to do a film like 'Jolly LLB' or something in that space.

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.