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 KHANFor 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.
More Irrfan Khan Quotes
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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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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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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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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We don’t have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned 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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Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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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 will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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