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I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

Irrfan Khan

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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Choice Language Luck Myself Play Role Television World
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Audience Change Cinema Demand Week
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Hollywood Leadership Man
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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Expensive Money Movie Myself Rich Stardom Thinking
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
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Drama Known Movie Show Theatre
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
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
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
It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Audience Desire Movie Reach
I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Character Consume Myself Play
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
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Cinema Commercial Myself Ready
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Myself Poetry Recitation Writing
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Culture Need Therapy
We don’t have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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Act Culture Realistic

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