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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Irrfan Khan

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Myself Poetry Recitation Writing
I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Character Consume Myself Play
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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Character Creativity Exploration Mental Role State Trick Yourself
I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Balance Bollywood Hollywood Movie Myself
It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Audience Desire Movie Reach
I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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Exploration Lips Myself Role Romantic Song
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Hollywood Leadership Man
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.
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Famous Fulfill Reassurance Yourself
Language does not make one an elite.
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Elite Language
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood Myself Offering Special
Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.
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Boredom Character Disturb Finding Intense Myself Play Time
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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Actor International Pride Quality Work Yourself
When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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Disappoint Movie Myself Remember Talk Theatre
I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
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Bear Crisis Myself Therapy
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Cinema Commercial Myself Ready
For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That’s a feeling I always have when I’m auditioning.
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Act Audition Feeling Mindset Myself Naked People

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