Zitat des Tages von Om Puri:
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.
Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!
I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
