'Later, I asked Hrithik how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances. He told me simply, "What could have happened? At the most, they would have killed me".'

'I started as an actor when I was only two-and-a-half years old, so I am not new to attention and the perks of being an actor.'

Mamata Shankar remembers the amazing actor Sreela Majumdar, who passed into the ages last week.

'When the mill strike started, there was crisis in every mill worker household.''One entire generation went without education.''Hunger forced them to take to crime.'

'I will always cherish the fact that I received the first big award of my life, actually two, in the company of legends for an incredible collaboration.'

'The fact that I got noticed in a film that stars Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone is a big high for me.'

'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.''If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?''What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'

'Every actor's journey is unique.''It's beautiful but also terrifying because you have to carve your own path.''So if there's somebody to talk it through, it's nice.'

'One day, just like that, without even saying goodbye, he was gone.'

'I am a very greedy actor. I want to explore everything.'

'Life had its own plans and now I have learnt to go with the flow.'

'Everybody has their bit of struggles and learnings. It will only end when you stop breathing.'

'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.'

'I never had any nakhras, never threw tantrums, so I got along with all my heroes.'

'India has the largest slate of local original content outside the US.'

'One told me there that she had been abused by her father when she was nine years old. The other when she was 12.''In all these years, they had not been able to confide about it to their mothers or even their husbands.'

'Padmini and I are very different people.''Our acting styles are very different. She's from a different era.'

'There have been and will continue to be, so many captivating stories in colonial India.''Obviously, most of the white people were British, so if I am going to take on a role in a film set in one of the most turbulent periods of Indian history, then it only stands to reason that my character would be of British descent.''But that doesn't mean all my roles are negative.'

'I joined Heeramandi's shoot right after completing Laapataa Ladies.''When I landed on the Heeramandi sets, I was like "Oh my God!" because this was for the first time I was seeing such a huge set in my life.'

'When it was confirmed that I would do the song, Manishaji walked up to me and asked, "Please Vijayshree, tell me how are you planning to do the song. Give me a rough idea so that I am mentally prepared".'

'I am always rocking.''I am a rockstar.''That's the way the world will always see me.'

'While I was performing it, I had a weird feeling that people would love it because it's so bizarre.'

'Hope is about being more accepting of each other, the kind of solidarity and friendship that even our families may not be able to give.'

'If there is an artiste somewhere in India or in the world who wants to express her art, I hoped that this award would inspire them, and add meaning to their journey.'

'We are the kids from the '90s who have grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol romancing on Suraj Hua Maddham.' 'At the same time, we are also the same people who text our partner and tell them, 'I am breaking up with you'.'

'Ranbir Kapoor has only one film as does Salman Khan.''Hrithik Roshan only has War 2.''Ranveer Singh has no film on floors today.'

'...something that should be discussed because it is a very important part of life.'

'I think because India is a bigger country and Bollywood is such a well-oiled machine, the star thing has become so much bigger than the actor thing.'

'Jitendra Pratap Singh (his character in Vedaa) believes in the divisive politics of society and that is more dangerous than the regular goons.'

'I am 7 feet and 7 inches tall.'

Ila Arun on music, movies and threatre.

'When I started to step into the West in 2006, I believed India was not going to be the back end.''I understood that no film-maker wants to believe that they are outsourcing their creativity to a low-end place.''The application of technology in the hands of our Indian artistes is identical to any of our artists in the West.''Nobody in the world can say this shot was done in India and that in London.'

'In the audience's mind there is no urgency to go see a film in the theatre.''If you pay for social media buzz it does not convert into bums on seats.'

'God can you get work, but once you get it, you have to do it with honesty and put your 100 percent into it.'

'At his wedding with Patralekha, I officiated as the groom's father as Raj has lost both parents, and that's the relationship we share today.'

'Women, come out and speak.'

'How to hold people's attention is challenging.'

'People worship Krishna. People don't worship Ved Vyas, who wrote the Mahabharata.''It's a cultural thing because we don't see the heroes behind the screen, we see the heroes who are in front of the screen.'

'Our analysis of success, like failure, is so reductive and so one dimensional that we don't look at the bigger picture.'

'At one time, I felt being a mother was the ultimate experience, a woman was not complete without it.''Now I feel it's not the be all and end all. Motherhood is a part of a jigsaw puzzle; life is the real big picture.'

'She was lying there and I mustered up enough guts to lay next to her and hold her tight.''And she said, "Oh my, Girish, isn't he supposed to be nervous?"''Making light of the situation, Girish said, "No, he's been practicing with a pillow the whole day".'

'Rekha and my wife were close friends, and my so-called cold war with Rekha was causing difficulties in my wife's friendship with her.''She patched us up for her own selfish reason.'

When you are in love, you are preoccupied just with that.''Nothing else registers. It's like being drugged.'

Amitabh Bachchan: 'Success didn't affect me at all.'Rajesh Khanna: 'I felt next to God!'

'The work of a film-maker is going out and making films.''And if you are in prison for 15 years, you can't make films.'

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