Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Vicky Kaushal

My father said he will always support me but just not as an action director. It is a deal between both of us. He is an inspiration because he is a self-made man. I want to set that same example for my kids. I will fight it out.

Anurag sir and I have had a beautiful journey as human beings.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

I was a huge fan of Hrithik Roshan.

The first time I ever went on set was during 'Fiza' when I was in Class X.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

I will keep working hard in future as well so that audience will keep showering their love upon me.

'Race' is one of the most successful film franchises in Bollywood. So I was really excited and honoured on being approached for the film. But since I was already committed to another film during the same time as the makers are planning to shoot 'Race 3,' things eventually didn't work out, unfortunately.

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

We tend to say that some films are made for multiplex audience and some for single-screen theatres.

There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let's analyze it a little - a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation.

My father never got films to our dinner table. It was never the case with us as well that our father works in films, and we know so many actors. It was like him going to work like any other father. In fact, my school friends would ask me if I have met a certain actor, and I would tell them that I haven't, which they found strange.

Every character comes with its own challenges.

I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.

I just want to grow as an actor and work with good directors.

I was just a regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket, and watching movies.

The biggest validation comes from my parents, because they know me in and out.

The best thing is to enjoy the process that can lead you either to success or to failure.

'Raazi,' for me, is a human story - it's much more than just a spy thriller.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.

When I am playing the protagonist of the film, before the release, I feel a certain pressure because I become the face of the film, then, and I have a major responsibility.

I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.

When you are given a character, there are times when you can relate to two out of 10 things of the character, and then there are times when you can relate to eight out of 10 things.

It is probably the best validation, the best compliment: that when somebody says you are getting good things in life, and you deserve this.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

When you get an opportunity to work in good films like 'Raazi,' it boosts your confidence to know that good filmmakers are willing to work with you.

With every film, my confidence gets boosted; I feel motivated.

When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.

For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not matter.

My dad has always inspired me.

I aspire to be a part of a good story, because then, the actor will automatically shine through.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.

Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.

Love hasn't changed, and it never will, no matter what kind of a society we become.

I know that in Bollywood, there is this constant talk on which actor's film is minting how much money, but we are living in a time where the focus is shifting from 'actor's responsibility' to the result of a great team work. I believe filmmaking is about that.

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

'Raman Raghav' will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a good cop but has his own issues.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

My job is to give my best, and where my journey would take me is something that I have left to God. I am not much of a planner; I am more of a doer.

I was an industry kid but was never brought up like one.

I talk out of experience that relationships don't get messy; it's our heads that are messy. People's expectations and beliefs screw up relationships.

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

I don't categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.

I will give my best to the job always.

My dad met my mom just once before their marriage.

I feel there's a halo around me, a constant sunshine wherever I go.

Working with Anurag sir was always a dream. He is the person I started my journey with.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

Expectations don't scare me because I have worked towards them. I want people to expect better things from me with every film. I never want to be in a position where they don't expect anything from me. I want to be in a position where if they are expecting sun from me, at least I will be able to reach the moon.

I have seen my dad working with utmost sincerity and integrity, the sacrifices he made. I have also seen the rewards: if you give your best, you get your worth.