Quotes and Sayings about Bollywood

I try to bring all my sincerity to the character I play. That way, I am dedicated.

I know it's a craze in Bollywood to have six-pack abs, but here, it's not the abs or the biceps that make us feel or look macho. Down south, the moustache still works for us.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it's widely followed in Brazil.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

I find Hollywood really toxic.

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

It was a Hollywood promise; not worth a damn.

Hollywood continues to present the U.S. Army as being the good guys, always defeating the aliens or foreigners.

Nobody does anything for free in Hollywood. They have to be paid for everything.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

Everyone wants to get to Hollywood. I don't trust people who say otherwise.

Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's-Third-Wife-Day.

The majority of the most successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

Do you have anything in this shop as beautiful as she is?

This is Hollywood. Always time to dream, so keep on dreamin'.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

Hollywood is a very inspiring place.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I want to keep running. I don't ever want this journey to finish. And for that to happen, you can't put too much of your brain in doing things and can't connect too many dots because, anyway, there is no guarantee of anything.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

Without a moustache, a man isn't dressed well.

I don't like myself without a beard.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

I think Los Angeles is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything.