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I am very lazy.
As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.
I enjoy playing different kind of people.
I have learnt to become patient as an actor.
My first love and my first instinct are acting.
I have loved playing every character that I essayed.
I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.
Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.
'Jersey' is a very strong story and is driven by emotions.
As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.
Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.
I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.
'Mausam' is about seasons of love and not exactly about the weather.
I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.
There are millions of people in the world, I have only played a few of them.
I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.
My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.
I think younger generation is much smarter than us. I am happy and proud of my kids.
If you continue working hard and be honest towards your work, then success will come.
School days were very special to me as I never found the time to complete my graduation.
I believe that the performance of my actors is of utmost importance to make a good film.
Delhi is where I began practising theatre, it is always special to perform in the capital.
It's a bit unusual that I'm the novelist and the actor who is reading out his own material.
The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.
Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.
I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.
The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.
In India, writers are underpaid. Universities should start new courses to create more opportunities for them.
I do a project and then I forget about it because the release of whatever work you have done is not in your hand.
Most of the theatre work that you see in India is very verbose and the visual is whatever you can create on stage.
As long as the character is interesting and I have something to do as an actor, there is no reason to turn it down.
When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.
Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.
There is a perception that I do certain kind of films. That's not true. I am open to any good scripts with a good role.
In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.
I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.
If offered a good role, I would like to work in a good Punjabi film. This land has produced great writers, poets and actors.
I feel you need to treat children as equals instead of giving them a complex - you are young, you are small, you don't know.'
I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.
My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.
What's most fortunate is that once he turned 18, Shahid assisted me for a while, so we got to spend a lot of time with each other.
I feel that God has been amazingly kind to me. How many actors get to stay for 30 years and play the kind of roles that I have done?
Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.
To be very objective, I am here in this field for thirty five years, and I always knew that Shahid has an incredible capability as an actor.
There were certain things that I tried to do on 'Karamchand.' Initially, they were hated, but eventually everyone loved the characterization.
Living my early years in Ludhiana, the Halwara base of the Indian Air Force was very close to our house. I would see jets cruise over my head.
As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.
Cinema which is well-made, for any kind of audience, is worthy of being watched by just about anybody who would like to watch a good story being told.
My son has been wiser than me in terms of his career graph. He saw to it that he became a star first and start to get all the roles that he wanted to do.
I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like 'Ek Doctor Ki Maut.' It's like reading Chekov and then going on to a comic strip.