Aamir Khan
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.Collection: Learning
Creative people have no barriers. Ultimately, it's connecting with human beings. There's just one planet. I don't see it as different countries.
I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.
If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.
I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.
My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.
Many people, including me, thought it was too early for me to play a father to two grown-up daughters, but I found the script of 'Dangal' irresistible. I had to do it!
As an actor, the best way I can hope to promote greater social understanding is through my work. If I can communicate with people and touch their hearts through 'Dangal,' perhaps, eventually, I can help change their minds.
Our choices are quite different: what attracts Salman and Shah Rukh are, I think, quite different from what attracts me. So in that sense, we are quite different, but I think we are fortunate to have had the kind of success that we've had.
The way actors interact with their audience via Twitter is a part of their personality. So if I interact less, that is a part of my personality. I am mostly lost in my own world.
There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. That's the reason why 'Dil Chahta Hai,' 'Lagaan,' and 'Rang De Basanti' worked so well: Ashutosh, Farhan, and Rakesh had a story inside them. It's very important that the director should have the fire in the belly to tell the story.
I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.
I don't believe in strategies. I love what I am doing; that's the main thing.
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.
I understand that I'm able to connect with people; I have an emotional bonding with people. My strength lies in my ability to tell stories and to touch people's hearts and to move them.
For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.
If the role is challenging enough, I don't see why I shouldn't play an older man or a father figure. It is not about playing what you are in real life. We are called actors for a reason!
When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.
I feel that, in India, we have films that have tackled various issues over the years, but perhaps one of the issues that we've tackled less is the issue of caste-ism. That's an issue we've more or less stayed away from... although we touched on it briefly in some films like 'Lagaan.'
When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.
The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.Collection: Perfection
I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.Collection: Risk
I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.Collection: Believe
Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.Collection: Reality
I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.Collection: Stories
I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A FanaticCollection: Spiritual
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussionCollection: Veils
Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.Collection: Office
Education is education, be it verbal or written.Collection: Written
The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded in the mission they set out to accomplish - and that is to make good cinema. If we feel that we have achieved that as a team, then we have all been successful.Collection: Team
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.Collection: Country
I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.Collection: People
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movementCollection: Play
Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazingCollection: Character
I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.Collection: Believe
If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.Collection: Reading
When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.Collection: Character
The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.Collection: Needs
I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.Collection: Fun
If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.Collection: Important
To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response.Collection: Numbers
A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.Collection: Winning
Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.Collection: Creative
I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.Collection: Thinking