RIP Irrfan Khan: Famous quotes by the versatile actor

We don’t have a culture of realistic acting in India.

Parsi theater was known for 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.

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.

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.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

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.

I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

A nation needs to know how to utilize talent.

When you come out of the theater and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.