"I was very sensitive to the environment around,……" — Om Puri
"I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me."
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15 Quotes by Om Puri
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as…
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.
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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and…
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I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani,…
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise,…
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes,…
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The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes…
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Meditation opens the doors of your inner treasures, what Jesus calls the kingdom of god. Meditation is only a key,…
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What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why…
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Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their…
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Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no…
— Unknown Author
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