Naseeruddin Shah

I am totally for first timers. I always hear them seriously. I have done so many films with first timers, and I've…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived…

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

When I saw Spencer Tracy in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I realised the distinction between being an actor and a…

— Naseeruddin Shah

One would marvel on the screen the way Shammi Kapoor walked, Dilip Kumar cried, or seeing Dev Anand's style. And then, one…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Actors have to learn that they are as important to a movie as the camera is, as important as the sound is,…

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced…

— Naseeruddin Shah

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

I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and…

— Naseeruddin Shah

When my bank balance runs low, then I sign a big Bollywood monstrous movie, and I make sure that I am safe…

— Naseeruddin Shah

The ballooning budgets of Bollywood are getting out of hand, and it's important for people to realise that you don't need Rs…

— Naseeruddin Shah

My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed…

— Naseeruddin Shah

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for…

— Naseeruddin Shah

When my brother came home from NDA (National Defence Academy), I felt, 'Wow, I should like to wear that uniform.' But I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor…

— Naseeruddin Shah

My agent wanted me to audition for Dumbledore's character after Richard Harris died. I was asked if I would like to audition…

— Naseeruddin Shah