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 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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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to 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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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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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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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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Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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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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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
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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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I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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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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