Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Pratik Gandhi

Buying a house in Mumbai is a big deal. Even after a decade of being in Mumbai, there was a time when we didn't have a house, suddenly the whole family was homeless.

What changed after 'Scam' on a bigger level was the way the audience and the makers started looking at me as an actor.

When someone is constantly praising you, beyond a point, you don't know what to say beyond a 'thank you.'

Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.

The job of an actor is to bring the story to the audience via screen.

When we were making 'Scam 92,' we knew that it was something unique.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

I come from a teaching family so, we never had anything to do with the financial world.

What can't change is the zeal and passion I have for work.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, we are humans and I am here in the entertainment industry for experiments, to create new characters and to tell stories, that's it. I don't think much about success. It will keep changing with every project.

There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.

When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on my acting career. But I was hesitant because I was equally passionate about both.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

In fact, I am a very, very optimistic guy.

When it comes to beliefs, it is a very tricky situation, because it can be anything and still you don't want to hurt anyone's beliefs.

Sanjeev Kumar is one actor whose performances have inspired me. The way he looked and the way he performed are two different things. That gives me a lot of confidence that look and all do not always matter.

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the writer, and we take it on from there.

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

In 2004, I shifted to Mumbai and started working in theatre, along with working for corporates for 15 years. That helped me a lot in creating a different character for multiple shows.

Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion. So that's a rare combination - being a good craftsman and a good human being.

Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I've seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.

I do like crime thriller stories. That's because these stories have a lot of layers. There are always three sides to such stories... there is a truth, there is a lie and then there is the ultimate truth. Different human emotions and intense interpersonal relationships form the core of stories in this genre.

I was grounded in the performing arts from a very young age.

I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.

Surat is an interesting place.

Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.

There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.

I have grown as an actor in all these years by doing multiple projects.

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.

I began working in Gujarati movies and I got noticed by many in Bollywood. It has been organic growth.

Your core competency and acting skills are important.

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know what I'm going to do.

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes into play. My job is to create that character and present him to the audience. If even one per cent of judgment creeps in, then the whole performance will be affected.

For an actor, nothing can be more blissful than a packed date diary!

Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this is what the audience would want from an actor. But as an artist, I don't want to be in that space.

It won't be wrong if I say that I've grown up in the theatre and it has grown in me.

It's very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it's true.

What is right and what is wrong keeps changing according to time.

Mohan No Masalo' is a play very dear to me.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

When things don't work out, it actually excites me even more. I always believe that something better will happen and that's why things are not working out right now. That's been my attitude towards everything that I do.

I find the world of podcasts very interesting because it truly puts the audience's visualisation into action. Each and every person listening to it can create their own stories in their minds, with the help of the voice they are listening to.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

There is a thin difference between confidence and ego.

Scam' gave me a national or I would say global platform which made me a household name. I am getting such a lot of love, appreciation, and acceptance from the audience and makers and that's a very satisfying feeling.

Theatre has given me lot of opportunities such as directing monologues in 'Saat Teri Ekvees.'

Budget makes a huge difference in the treatment of any movie. When the budget is lavish, it helps the creative team to visualise a story on a broader canvas.

I feel really lucky to have 'Scam 1992' as my first national release, in fact it became international because of the OTT.

The monologue is an interesting space for an actor.

I don't succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

I had to turn down films and plays because I had a job, and I could not take up better job offers that required me to relocate, because I did not want to lose the link with theatre. It was a huge decision for me to quit my job.

Pre 'Scam' era, I could go out with my daughter in the evening and just go out for a walk, or do things like buying vegetables or other things for the home. But now, in the post 'Scam' era, if I have to do something like that, I have to think about it many times now.

There can't be competition between actors.

Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.

Right and wrong are both very subjective, it's all grey.

I'm the kind of person, the moment I see issues, I tend to think about the solutions. And that's how my mind is trained.

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

I am looking at consistency in my choices now and creating repeat value as far as my work is concerned.

Initially, when 'Scam' was released and it instantly became huge, I did feel the pressure. Everyone kept telling me that my next move will decide my career, that I had to choose wisely and be double sure of what I do next. But when I thought about it, I realised there's no formula to this.

I had heard a lot of key words about Harshad Mehta in books, documentaries, on the Internet, and in the script like his passion, greed, a bit of ego, and confidence.