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I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

Irrfan Khan

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Audience Change Cinema Demand Week
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
It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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Actor International Pride Quality Work Yourself
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
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
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
I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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Exception Live Myself
In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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Culture Need Therapy
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
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
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Hollywood Leadership Man
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Drama Known Movie Show Theatre
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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