Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Deepti Naval - Page 2

My family has always appreciated and supported me for my choices.

My role in Nandita Das' 'Firaaq' as a woman too impotent to intervene when her community resorts to brutality and violence has struck a chord wherever the film has been screened.

I never run away from things but confront them, and I preferred to stay on the periphery of Mumbai film industry.

I am not a trained actor, and for me, getting under the skin of a character, living their lives, is important, or the audience will catch my lie.

Farooque Shaikh was not sick at all. In fact, when we were working together during 'Listen... Amaya,' I was sick but he was totally fit and very energetic and enthusiastic. Nobody had slightest hint that such a calamity can happen to him. His death was such a shattering news, first thing in the morning.

I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on camera and painful moments off camera.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

My two favorite actors are Naseeruddin Shah and Farooq Sheikh. I am happy that I got to work with them.

I was a loner and would constantly find ways to drift away from crowd at social gatherings.

Directing the television serial, 'Thoda Sa Aasman,' was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.

On a flight, I saw the 'Chashme Buddoor' remake. It did nothing to me. It had no impact. Watching the remake, I missed the original team even more.

I can never turn my back on acting.

I became extremely choosy about films.

I feel that somewhere actors are vulnerable, that they need to be protected and this is why we find ourselves living life much less than more.

I don't mind acting on TV if I have to play a mature, contemporary character. But I can't play a lehenga-clad lady in a saas-bahu serial.

I've had a weakness for Bengali directors, be it Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, or Goutam Ghose, because of their sensitivity towards cinema.

I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.

Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films 'Raincoat' and 'Chokher Bali' and I had always admired his body of work.

I always thought I wouldn't do well on stage.

Earlier, when actors aged, they were never, ever to be seen again; but times have changed for the better. Now you don't have to go into oblivion just because you've crossed 40.

This kind of devotion doesn't exist anymore, that you would spend half your life in love with somebody and you never even see that person. One or two meetings is enough.

I don't listen to people who don't matter to me.

I wish I was born 20 years earlier so I could have worked with Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and K. Asif.

Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

I like to observe others a lot.

OTT platforms have opened up a whole new area to explore in terms of content, writing, acting, everything. But I'm not really very comfortable with the four-letter cuss words in all languages, which are now used liberally; I'm a bit old school.

I used to walk miles to make a single phone call. Look how things have changed today.

Each and every role I have done has been a conscious decision.

I would have loved to be a part of 'Guzaarish.'

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be an actress. And ever since I became an actress, I wanted to make a film.

My career has been very spaced out.

I don't know about the public and the industry, but I am an all-time Sanjay Leela Bhansali fan. His cinema is completely stylized and commercial and yet hugely experimental.

Television does not fascinate me.

I became completely enamored of the idea that I would play someone I knew personally.

For me, when I am in front of the camera, that's real, that's the moment I want to live.

I love the kind of films Sanjay Leela Bhansali makes.

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

In my career, I have made the right choices, but somehow, as an actress, I wish I had done more films.

Turning to direction is an inevitable branching-out.

I love old Hindi songs, black and white films.