"There's always been a schism between work and personal life - this could go back to the fact that my father is not an actor - we never talked about films at home " Saif Ali Khan on his heritage, keeping a distance from his work and friendships in Bollywood.
"The pressure has been on women - they need to be perfect, i think it's beyond time now that men also started to look good" John on Dostana and becoming an object of desire and the lessons he learnt from that.
"There was a host of models before me - Deepak Malhotra, Milind Soman, Dino Morea, Arjun Rampal" John talks about building a credible body of work, bad films notwithstanding and breaking that model myth.
"I told my grandfather i will charge in terms of dinky cars, i was 5 or 6 - i asked for 10 dinky cars" Hrithik Roshan on his childhood, prepping to be an actor which was not easy and his very first film ever (this may surprise you).
"I came in being my own person, which therefore guided my choices" Vidya Balan on managing expectations and learning from her mistake of trying to conform.