Religion should be treated as personal as sex. People should consider the question “What religion do you follow?” as awkward as “How well did you f*ck your wife last night?”
– Kamal Haasan
To my conscience, Humanity is the Mother of all religions. Be the Human and Being Human raise the standard of Humanity.
– Kamal Haasan
I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.
– Kamal Haasan
Religious people are so convinced that only their religion is the right one. You will never find them asking for Muslim Blood or Hindu Blood or Christian blood at a hospital.
– Kamal Haasan
I am not blaming one religion. I am fed up. I am just an artiste, I am godless.
– Kamal Haasan
Satyajit Ray said “I know Kamal-Haasan rather well personally, but I haven’t seen his films. I think he’s very talented. I like to talk to him because he’s intelligent.”
– Kamal Haasan
I am very careful in what I say. You can’t make a funny story about religion.
– Kamal Haasan
Aamir Khan said “There are some things he can do that others can but there are many things Kamal can do that no other actor can.”
– Kamal Haasan
Shahrukh Khan said “I walk down the road and people want to kiss me. I’d never do all that to anyone. Not Mr. Bachchan or Mr. Rajnikant. The exception is Kamal. I asked him if I could touch him when I first met him. He has an amazing sense of using space. When he plays an old man his gait and the way he stands is enough to convey his age. He doesn’t need make-up. I find him greater than Dustin Hoffman and De Niro put together, I know Kamal can make you cry with a look in his eyes. I know his pauses. He has an amazing sense of timing that he knows the audience likes. He’s a technician par excellence. That kind of knowledge and control every actor should strive to get. God has become a generic term like mind blowing. It is embarrassing. I would have said that to Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar. I used to tell them I want to stand in the same space as you. I’ve told Kamal-Haasan, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting.”
– Kamal Haasan
Singetham Srinivas Rao said “Only an actor of Kamal’s calibre can play a Dwarf effectively.”
– Kamal Haasan
Freedom of speech is unlike love. Love as popularly quoted is never having to say that you are sorry. But in freedom of speech you must be ready to say as many things as you want to, need to, before you say sorry.That too when you are truly convinced you are.
– Kamal Haasan
You do not have to search for heaven Its right here!! You don’t have to wait for the doors to open. It’s already open!! If you don’t know how to enter what am I to do?
– Kamal Haasan
I don’t have a religion yet I shamelessly use some rare but finer points from even religion for a better living and harmony. I don’t think that either democracy,communism or fascism or any other cocktail of them is going to be the ultimate and final answer for all social maladies.
– Kamal Haasan
Actors can be refined and be better. I’m an improved version of whatever you’ve seen earlier. I do not say this with arrogance, but it is my duty to be better than my predecessor and it’s my duty to see that my successor is better than me.
– Kamal Haasan
Ramesh Sippy said “The range and versatility of Kamalahasan is unbelievable. He is one of our best actors.”
– Kamal Haasan
I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called books. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you can’t.
– Kamal Haasan
I am looking for excellence. Anyone can struggle but they cannot make a ‘perfect’ film.
– Kamal Haasan
In future we’ll have CEOs running the country not leaders, because I think we are not sheep any more, we don’t need to be shepherd, we need someone to take care of us.
– Kamal Haasan
I am proud of the kind of democracy we have managed to practice in spite of many attempts to abuse it. India is a younger democracy as compared to the centuries old democracy practiced in UK and USA. Yet universal suffrage that is voting rights for all citizens of India came into practice 15 years before it came into practice in a democracy called America.
– Kamal Haasan
Thanks to history books, I have realized that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realize that there is nothing stupid like war.
– Kamal Haasan