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I still reject lead roles, as I don’t accept any role if I don’t find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

Boman Irani

The moment you say, ‘I want to do a role,’ the story suffers. I don’t set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.
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Priorities Roles Suffering
I’m not a hero or a superstar. I’m an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.
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Children Hero Kids
I don’t have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me… even when I am not in my best mood.
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Father Kids Mood
I used to follow celebrities, and I remember I watched Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt shooting for ‘Sadak’. I was standing on the road at three in the night, but little did I know that I would be making a film with Sanjay at some point in my career.
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Careers Follow Night Road Use
Hopefully, we’ll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
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Come Films Great Hopefully Know
No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other’s legs… To lose all of that for what? Who’s got the time? I’m having great fun working.
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Family Fun Home Legs Wonderful Working
For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.
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Day Directors End Film
When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.
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Children Mom Teacher
I bask in the affection I get on the streets. I recently went into the kitchen of a restaurant to meet the cooks. They were people I didn’t know, but what a joy it was meet them! Such experiences wouldn’t happen if I were doing only one kind of cinema.
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Affection Joy Kitchen People Street
There’s a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life.
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Play Theatre Years
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films and I want to see whether 3 Idiots will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country…
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Country Memories Years
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It’s the greatest problem.
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One Problem Ruins
Chilli ice cream doesn’t taste bad. But I wouldn’t eat it again.
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Ice Ice Cream Taste
I still reject lead roles, as I don’t accept any role if I don’t find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.
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Challenges Enough Roles
I don’t mind being identified as any character as long as I’m doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles – from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
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Character Editors Jobs
I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.
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Important Responsibility Roles

I still reject lead roles, as I don’t accept any role if I don’t find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

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I still reject lead roles, as I don’t accept any role if I don’t find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

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