There are things apart from films that inspire me. I play a lot of sports and love it. It is the only field where you can't become a star without actual performance.Collection: Sports
Terrorism is not a sign of courage. It means cowardice.Collection: Courage
I was born in Kerala, where my maternal grandparents lived, and stayed there till the age of one, after which I came to Maharashtra to live with my parents and moved all around the state with my father, who worked as a superintendent in an ordnance factory.Collection: Age
I believe religion is a branch of spirituality, often misinterpreted and twisted to suit people's ideas. In truth, religion and spirituality are meant to co-exist happily.Collection: Religion
For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.Collection: Space
We are a jingoistic nation - whether it is politics or films or whatever. We can posthumously shower praises and accolades on people, but when they are alive, we don't bother about them. A classic case is Om Puri.Collection: Politics
I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have more scope to explore a subject as it gives you more time.Collection: Movies
Life is too short to hold regrets. Once it's done, you cannot regret it.
Every human being has a plethora of emotions. As an actor, we are lucky to take them out and portray onscreen. But in normal life you can't do that. That is the charm of leading an actor's life.
Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.
I wanted to be an actor since I was just nine-years-old.
I can't really iterate what I look for in a script. It's a very subjective thing. Like an organic attachment you have with the script and characters.
In real life, I don't cry too easily. I go numb.
In my case, I'm in touch with God in good times and bad. I don't use God as a means of favour. And I can't do business with him - the very thought is bizarre.
Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.
An actor should not bother about the camera per se, and what kind it is.
I am an avid tennis player.
If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.
I believe in cinema! Unfortunately, 90 per cent of Hindi cinema is non-cinema. Only marketing works here. Even the item songs in these films are an extension of marketing.
I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.
It does not mean that in the process of a small screen, I do small acting, or if I do a big screen project, I do big acting. For the actor, it does not matter.
You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.
Yes, I am extremely choosy. You decide whether to do a film or not only after you meet and talk to the film-maker. Only someone who thinks out of the box excites me.
I don't do films for charity any more. In the past, I've done that for friends or people who couldn't not afford to pay. But now money matters.
People often accuse me of being serious. Have I played serious roles in 'Honeymoon Travels' and 'Sankat City?' It is just that after the films were made, producers did not have money to bombard it all over the place.
Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.
Content films necessary don't go by the content, they go by the emotions. Content films are about content whether you want to portray the content or sell it through humour, through seriousness, is a choice of the filmmaker.
I have never done any homework even when I was a child!
The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.
I am happy with the roles I play.
Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.
Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.
I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually become an actor.
Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.
Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.
I don't bother about awards.
As an actor, I like my films to be believable.
If you don't have integrity, don't be in cinema.
Vijay Mallya is a star, not an actor. Anybody who lives a lifestyle of that kind, is a star.
I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.
If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.
When I see good films not doing well, irrespective of my role being appreciated or not, I have a problem because then the producer who has made a loss will never believe in investing in good cinema.
When I saw 'Lage Raho Munnabhai,' I felt proud be a part of the industry.
Before 'Sarkar,' I used to introduce myself as Kay Kay, the actor and then that got reduced to just Kay Kay as people realised that I am already an actor.
A simple love story can be made into an interesting film if the film-maker can think differently.
Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.
We used to stay in Aundh and as a kid I remember going to a single screen theatre to watch 'Sholay' with my family.
Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.
I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were not many MBA institutes in the city!
Be honest and accept it if you do not have talent. And if you do, hone your skills.