Miscellaneous Quotes
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
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 was very hurt with the Kotakpura incident where the sacrilege incident occurred… Then on the directions of Badal, police opened fire on Sikh protesters who were peacefully protesting in which two persons died. I take a vow that those who were involved in the incidents of sacrilege will be put behind bars. I will also send cops who fired at innocent people and police officials who ordered them to fire behind bars.
– Arvind Kejriwal
I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.
– Rick Baker
That is not with me. It is up to the directors to give me roles that might fetch awards.
– Rajinikanth
When mind stops – everything stops.
– Anandmurti Gurumaa
Good days or bad days depend on your thinking. What you call “Suffocation” in a local train becomes an “Atmosphere” in a disco…:
– Anupam Kher
Ramesh Sippy said “The range and versatility of Kamalahasan is unbelievable. He is one of our best actors.”
Has the state government acted in providing justice to the Dalits? We will give justice to Dalits for atrocities committed on them during last 10 years
– Arvind Kejriwal
People liked the fact that Amol-Palekar wasn’t Superman, that he was an ordinary man who traveled by bus or local train, who actually went to office and worked. This was rare in movies then.
– Amol Palekar
I’ve always been the most vocal person socially about things that I feel are important.
– Anupam Kher
In an autobiography, I will have to write the truth, I should not hide anything. Just to avoid people’s feelings, I should not be hiding things. If I don’t present events as they happened, truthfully, it is not an autobiography at all. I have read Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography and if I can muster up the kind of courage that he had, I will write one.
– Rajinikanth
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
Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government… we want swaraaj, the people’s rule, in Delhi.
– Arvind Kejriwal
EVALUATE THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE, THEN PROMOTE, DEMOTE, OR TERMINATE. YOU ARE THE CEO OF YOUR LIFE.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
I will act if there is a role which gives me some challenge, butterflies in my stomach. I don’t want to play a generic father. When I was only an actor I didn’t follow a beaten track, why will I do it now?
– Amol Palekar
I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room… there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.
– Anupam Kher
People were fed up with corruption in Delhi. I took action against several officials who were charged with graft. Officers have now stopped demanding money. Though corruption has not been fully eliminated, we have been able to finish 80 per cent of corruption from Delhi.
– Arvind Kejriwal
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn’t aware is a punch line.
– Kapil Sharma
People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
– Kapil Sharma
I was too naive when I started out. It was hard to understand the workings of the industry. But rejection and ridicule pushed me to discover my individuality. I wanted success on my terms.
– Asha Bhonsle
Shouting from the rooftop is not my nature at all. I am known so much for understatement that when one of my contemporaries was talking about my acting, he said acting kahan karta hai. I feel that was the best compliment.
– Amol Palekar
As an actor who had to teach himself, it was imperative for me to create my own space in the competitive profession. I realised early in my career that my screen presence should essentially have something of my own personality. My personality was not flamboyant or given to exhibitionism of any kind.
– Dilip Kumar
Dilip-Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don’t believe it, ask your mom!
– Dilip Kumar
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
When people meet me and call me by my real name, I don’t appreciate it. I feel as if they are boasting that they know my real name (Sampooran Singh Kalra).
– Gulzar
Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.
– Edmund Blunden
Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I’m not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I’ll be more than happy.
– Kapil Sharma
I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.
– Kapil Sharma
It is better to give a village Rs 3 crore in untied funds than Rs 5 crore in tied funds. Let the people of the village meet in a gram sabha and decide how much money will be spent on irrigation, how much on education and how much on health. Let the village decide the amount to be spent under whichever head.
– Arvind Kejriwal