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What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

Irrfan Khan

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
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Drama Known Movie Show Theatre
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’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Character Consume Myself Play
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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Connection Movie Myself Pathetic Prayer Situation Thinking
I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Exception Live Myself
We don’t have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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Act Culture Realistic
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Hollywood Leadership Man
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Cinema Commercial Myself Ready
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
It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Audience Desire Movie Reach
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 will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood Myself Offering Special
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Myself Nation Talent Utilization
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

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