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Acting is learnt, not taught.Collection: Naseeruddin
When I first dreamt of becoming a movie star, I wanted to be a Gary Cooper: I wanted to be rich and famous, living in palaces and wearing dark glasses and white suits.Collection: Naseeruddin
The ballooning budgets of Bollywood are getting out of hand, and it's important for people to realise that you don't need Rs 20 crore to make a good, commercially viable film.Collection: Naseeruddin
There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.Collection: Naseeruddin
There was a time when I only wanted to show off, but as I've grown older, I've realised that acting isn't an end in itself. You act to communicate something, and if you have to use an accent or become thin or fat, that's part of your job.Collection: Naseeruddin
My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.Collection: Naseeruddin
I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in trying to determine their lives for them but in terms of trying to discipline them.Collection: Naseeruddin
There are a lot of people in my family who should have become actors.Collection: Naseeruddin
As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there's nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work.Collection: Naseeruddin
I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium.Collection: Naseeruddin
I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.Collection: Naseeruddin
There is no such thing as serious cinema in India.Collection: Naseeruddin
The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.Collection: Naseeruddin
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.Collection: Naseeruddin
The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create.Collection: Naseeruddin
When my bank balance runs low, then I sign a big Bollywood monstrous movie, and I make sure that I am safe for the next few years.Collection: Naseeruddin
A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.Collection: Naseeruddin
Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense.Collection: Naseeruddin
It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.Collection: Naseeruddin
I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.Collection: Naseeruddin
Hindi cinema has only one religion, and that's money.Collection: Naseeruddin
I was never turned down because I was a Muslim. I was turned down because I was not right for the part.Collection: Naseeruddin
A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.Collection: Naseeruddin
Learning a craft is up to you, whether you are doing theatre or movies.Collection: Naseeruddin
I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.Collection: Naseeruddin
I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.Collection: Naseeruddin
When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.Collection: Naseeruddin
When I saw Spencer Tracy in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I realised the distinction between being an actor and a film star. He was both, and I, too, resolved to try and be both.Collection: Naseeruddin
Acting is no longer a taboo. The stigma has gone because people have realised that it's a perfectly valid career choice.Collection: Naseeruddin
Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for too long, uneducated actors have ruled the roost in the acting world.Collection: Naseeruddin
I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to leave any trace except for the work I have done.Collection: Naseeruddin
I have done practically everything that I wanted to do in my life.Collection: Naseeruddin
I never go to film festivals. I am allergic to them.Collection: Naseeruddin
Sometimes, more money is spent on promotion of a film than the making of it. I don't understand that logic. The movie should run on its merit.Collection: Naseeruddin
Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.Collection: Naseeruddin
From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.Collection: Naseeruddin
I don't see a future for Broadway-style theatre in India. We already have Hindi cinema, but small, intimate theatre will survive as long as people feel the need to talk to each other.Collection: Naseeruddin
When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.Collection: Naseeruddin
An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.Collection: Naseeruddin