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.
IRRFAN KHANI can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
More Irrfan Khan Quotes
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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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.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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We don’t have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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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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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.
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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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