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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Irrfan Khan

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
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Culture Need Therapy
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
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
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Audience Change Cinema Demand Week
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Myself Nation Talent Utilization
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
I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Balance Bollywood Hollywood Movie Myself
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 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
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Investment Market Money Power Reduction Share Story Yourself
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
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
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Acceptance Goodness Sign Society
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Myself Poetry Recitation Writing

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