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" A film engages you emotionally and intellectually. "
Emotionally
Film
Intellectually
" A nation needs to know how to utilise talent. "
Know
Talent
Needs
" Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week. "
Demanding
Every
Week
" For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning. "
Me
Know
Yourself
" Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man. "
Leading
Ready
Indian
" I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. "
Language
World
I Am
" I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema. "
Commercial
Cinema
Am
" I cannot live anywhere else except India. "
Else
Cannot
Except
" I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. "
Cannot
Poetry
Recite
" I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation. "
God
Think
Situation
" I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me. "
Want
Song
Romantic
" I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood. "
Strike
Trying
Balance
" In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need. "
Culture
Become
India
" It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences. "
Reach
Actor
Always
" It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work. "
Actor
Quality
High
" I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me. "
Characters
Consumed
Many
" I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career. "
Comfort Zone
Destiny
Me
" I want to entertain people, but with some substance. "
Some
People
Entertain
" I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself. "
Therapy
Myself
Going
" I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me. "
Me
Hollywood
Will
" Language does not make one an elite. "
Elite
Language
Make
" Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that. "
Yourself
Famous
Become
" Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club. "
Think
Talk
Who
" Parsi theater was known for melodrama. "
Known
Theater
Melodrama
" Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring. "
Me
Boring
Character
" The sign of a good society is where talent is respected. "
Sign
Society
Talent
" We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India. "
India
Culture
Acting
" What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character. "
You
Find
Explore
" When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me. "
Remember
You
Theatre
" You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling. "
Know
Because
You
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