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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

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
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
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
It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Audience Desire Movie Reach
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
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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Actor International Pride Quality Work Yourself
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Drama Known Movie Show Theatre
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Culture Need Therapy
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Audience Change Cinema Demand Week
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
I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Balance Bollywood Hollywood Movie Myself
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
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
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Myself Poetry Recitation Writing

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