'It's up to the audience to decide if I am the lead or not. I want to stay away from these conversations because it demotivates the actors, when they get stuck in this game of lead, second lead or supporting cast.'

'We have actually made the film for children and intellectual people.'

'It got boring after a point.'

'But it's not something I am interested in.'

'I did not have a quintessential debut even though my father is a well known actor in the industry. That's why I never felt like an industry kid.'

'My director has put the ugliest face of a crime on screen.'

'Sometimes, I wish someone would tell me that this will happen at this point in time, so I know how my life will be. I don't know what my evening is like. I don't know what my tomorrow will be like. The uncertainty sometimes takes a toll on me.'

'I've been tagged as a Punchnama girl, where I break everyone's hearts. I wanted to be a heroine in that film but what did they make me?'

'I would love to be a part of Bollywood. Sadly, only glamorous roles have been offered to me until now, where I have nothing to do, just be a glam-doll.'

'People won't give me a chance just because I am Priyanka Chopra's sister.'

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'I don't watch my films more than once, otherwise I will fall in love with myself.'

'When a person is poor, no one asks him anything, fearing that he might ask for a loan. But when he gets rich, everyone comes. So that changeover is happening and it is nice that it is happening.'

'But it is also an industry that is very accepting when they see talent and hard work.'

'... and committed.''Priyanka had so much happening in her personal life...''Once we started, Priyanka rose to it.'

'Since my dad is the director and producer of the film, the environment at home is quiet, nervous, excited and honestly, I just want it over with. Then I can relax and move on with my life.'

'I am not here to change the society, and I am not under the delusion that a film can change things around. The idea is to have fun and give your point of view.'

'Films were made on a very low budget, so if there was a small defect, we would let it pass, and audiences often didn't catch those defects.' Shyam Ramsay tells us his 'horror' story.

'I used to hate the way Bollywood films depicted the south.'

'Whatever I have learnt is because of Sunny sir.'

'I don't believe in the length of the role. But I definitely don't want to be decoration.'

'I have been dropped from films, I have been replaced after workshops. I did not play cricket for India. If I have to sit and think who Angad Bedi is, the end of that thought is that I am human. Life has taught me a lot.'

'There was no time to do all the normal things that children do as they grow up.''One day, I was playing with dolls.''The next day, I was on a train looking for opportunities to sing at various recording studios.'

'I had the luxury of focusing on doing quality cinema. If that did not work out, I will still have other work. I can take that risk.'

'I say no to 70 percent of the TV work because I cannot relate to it.'

'We got to know about Bard of Blood coming up on Netflix, just a week after The Family Man's release. So suddenly there are comparisons between the two.'

'It was difficult, but we wanted to show an honest portrayal.''I was not trying to tear him apart.'

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'I am actually fighting to become the center of attraction because Hrithik and Tiger are getting all of it!'

'India is called the largest democracy in the world, and one cannot believe that there are two Constitutions, two penal codes and two sets of laws.'

'It's next to impossible to cast two superstars in one film as the main lead, and that's why directors and writers don't even think about attempting it.'

'There were times when I thought of quitting but I have always believed in my talent.'

'I am learning good things and trying to avoid the bad. I am moving ahead with a positive attitude. That is my biggest achievement.'

'There is never a safe choice in the movie business.''Everything is chance.'

'Salman Khan should be booked under the National Security Act as he is destroying Indian culture.'

'सलमान ख़ान को राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा कानून के तहत गिरफ़्तार किया जाना चाहिये, क्योंकि वो भारतीय संस्कृति को नष्ट कर रहा है।'

'Raj and DK have taken the effort to look at Moosa as a person.''Like, what happened to him?''What made him become a terrorist?''The emotional trauma that he might have had... that clicked for me.'

'If a horror movie does well at the box office, it doesn't mean people like to scared these days. People might like to get scared on one Friday, fall in love on other, and laugh on the next.'

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'If you want to see sex, just go watch porn. You don't need to watch a film or a Web series for that.'

'The script, the way it has been written, the relationships, the intensity... everything was so powerful.'

'Umrao Jaan has a beautiful soundtrack, and has been very dear to us right from our childhood days. We felt it had the perfect story to recreate for a stage musical.'

'But you have to keep in mind the entertainment value. It can't be preachy.'

'If you want people to get a social message, it is important to package it with humour.'

'Naseeruddin Shah will be an interesting contestant on Bigg Boss We can send Rakhi Sawant back in the house because I really enjoyed her on the show.'

'What is the fun of making a film without any message?'

'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.'

'You can be fat, you can be thin, you can be fair, or not, you are whatever you are.''It is about being happy about yourself.'

'Who will give me that (lost) time?' 'The stress I have gone through, the stress my family has gone through.''We have not laughed in seven, eight years.'

'Everybody had told me that I was the next big thing in Bollywood because my face and body structure was like a superstar. But when it didn't happened, I learned a lot of important things in life.'