Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Nana Patekar
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian actor Nana Patekar.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.
When you serve the country selflessly, that is your greatest contribution to the country.
The more layers a story has, the better it is for the audience.
I can't dance, but I have tried it in 'Kohram.'
Bipasha is a very sincere and professional actor.
Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.
Pakistani actors and everything come later, but first comes my country. I don't know anyone apart from my country, and nor would I like to know anyone.
I want to tell the children of Kashmir that they should read, write, and learn and come to the mainstream.
I want to do films like 'As Good as it Gets' or 'Analyze This.'
I play the piano, paint, and go for trekking.
More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.
I would have loved to work with Satyajit Ray.
Theatre has taught me a lot, and I am sure there will be a lot to learn.
Nobody can do a Govinda as well as Govinda can.
Acting was just a hobby; I never needed butter from it.
I always do one film at a time.
Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
I believe in sharing and contributing to society without being in politics.
Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!
When you refer to terra entities, you ornately say Mother Nature and Mother Earth. How much honour and care do all of us accord to any of the three - including our real life mother?
Actors are bedbugs in front of the nation. We don't have any worth.
I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.
I believe in God, but I am not religious.
We all are Indians, and that should be our only religion. What is the need to be called a Hindu, Muslim, or Christian? Does anybody have any religion or caste at the time of birth?
My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.
I cook anything, be it vegetarian or non-vegetarian. But mutton dishes are my favourite.
I have always wanted to be an actor. I was just five when I started acting.
My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.
My cooking style is exactly like my mother's.
I would like to address the issue of farmers through my craft - my films. But, the sad part is that such films win awards but don't get any rewards at the BO.
I wouldn't say I have a bad temper.
The police and the army do their job honestly and sincerely. They are devoted to the country.
That's me: success and failure don't affect me.
You shouldn't think about the fate of the films. The film might succeed or fail, but your performance must be good. You should work hard for every film.
When I don't feel like working, I don't.
I don't like talking about bygones.
When I was just 13 years old, I even painted cinema posters.
I came from the theatre. I would prefer to spend more time there.
I do just a film a year and so have a lot of time.
'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.
I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.
I'm a very simple and calm man, but when the camera is switched on, acting begins.
I will never join politics under any circumstances.
There is a difference between being straightforward and careless.
I don't like eating outside food at all. I do it only if there is absolutely no choice. Whenever I have a party at home, and even if there are 25 people coming, I make it a point to cook everything at home, and I don't get any stuff from outside.
People have been unkind to me, but I do not want to swear vengeance. I am a simple human being.
My role was very good and different in 'Khamoshi.'
I don't understand how people do so many films at the same time. For me, two films a year.
Pu La was like a father figure to people of my generation. I thank him for the characters his literary works offered us. They personify full-fledged human beings and have always given me company.
I am a better cook than actor.
Pu La's writing is multi-layered, multi-faceted, and deep.
Though I have maintained proximity with all political parties, politics is not my cup of tea; my mission to speak against all wrongs will continue.
Soldiers are the biggest heroes. No one can be a bigger hero than them.
If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.
What is the difference between me and a criminal? My crimes were not caught. Those of us whose crimes were not caught are on this side of the fence while criminals have been condemned on the other side.
We should judge by talent and work not by community or caste.
Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.
If I would have not been in films, I would have become an anti-social element.
That is my style. I work when I feel like working.
Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - my favourite actors - is what I want to do.
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