The magic of theatre is how much can you stimulate the mind of the audience, not how many illusions you can create. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Learning a craft is up to you, whether you are doing theatre or movies. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in my family who should have become actors. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there's… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
When I saw Spencer Tracy in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I realised the distinction between being an actor and a… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Actors have to learn that they are as important to a movie as the camera is, as important as the sound is,… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I don't see a future for Broadway-style theatre in India. We already have Hindi cinema, but small, intimate theatre will survive as… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor,… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
Actors have to learn that they are as important to a movie as the camera is, as important as the sound is, and less… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
I think our cinema has stayed in its adolescent stage largely because of our obsession with and our dependence upon stars to make our… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
It was the '70s when mediocrity came in Hindi films. That's when the actor called Rajesh Khanna joined the industry. For all his success,… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
When I first dreamt of becoming a movie star, I wanted to be a Gary Cooper: I wanted to be rich and famous, living… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
It would be impossible to find an actor to portray Om Puri, so I wouldn't even attempt it. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share
