Indian Quotes

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

An outsider can see some things much better.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.