Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
IRRFAN KHANIn India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
More Irrfan Khan Quotes
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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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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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I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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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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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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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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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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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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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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