Top 125 Bombay Quotes & Sayings

I came to Bombay and got my first big break in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 'Guddi.'

I am working on 'Bombay Velvet'. The music for it is jazz from the '60s.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

I was determined to return to Bombay on two legs and not on crutches and dance again.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl.

Duly Enlightened Gandhi's head by Mall of the 'Free Press Journal,' Bombay, in 1932Watches may disagree, but let us not.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

Bombay is the ideal microcosm of India, of that whole sense of inequality where you could have the biggest skyscrapers next to the poorest slums.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

I am a Bombay girl.

When I came to Bombay, as it was called in my time, it was filled with people from everywhere, Kashmir to Kerala.

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

Commuter trains are the easiest target for terrorists, as we have seen in Madrid, London, and now Bombay. But it is difficult for a Westerner to comprehend the kind of overcrowding in a Bombay local train; they ferry six million passengers a day. A bomb that goes off in one of those compartments will have maximum impact.

In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the comfort zone and that's why I love shooting here. In Bombay, the money is bigger, the stakes are bigger.

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

Bombay as a confident, welcoming city that takes in a million new people a year, that those who want to harm the country pick Bombay. Other Indian cities, such as Delhi and Varanasi, have also been bombed recently, but Bombay's significance as the financial capital of the country means that it's the best target for terrorists who're unhappy with India's progress.

The reason I went ahead with making the music for 'Bombay Velvet' was because I loved the script.

Bombay is different to Liverpool, or anywhere, really.

Bombay always felt home.

When I used to go to Bombay to run, I would often meet Raj Kapoor and he would take me to RK Studio.

I came to Bombay in January 1981. It was primarily for 'Gandhi.'

When I don't have the time to be in the Himalayas, I am in Bombay, Los Angles or N.Y. or Paris or wherever.

My mother is a lawyer by profession. Now she has shifted with me in Bombay. I lost my father a long back.

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I come from a small town, so there we have this habit of talking to rickshawallahs while you are making a trip. So when I moved to Bombay, people found it strange that I do that.

Salaam Bombay' and 'Monsoon Wedding' are the two Mira Nair films I go back to.

Roja,' 'Bombay' and 'Dil Se' weren't planned as political films. It was a phase India was going through and these things affected me and found their way into my work.

In 'Bombay-London-New York,' I speak of the ways in which the 'soft' emotion of nostalgia is turned into the 'hard' emotion of fundamentalism.

Delhi gives you a lot of love. Bombay people don't care much because it's usual for them to see a TV serial guy or a movie actor.

Those who are complaining about Bombay's law and order should be sent to U.P. and Bihar - only then they will realize how safe and secure Bombay is.

The great thing about Bombay is its open, generous heart. I hope - I know - that this spirit will endure. Bombay will adjust.

Look at New York and the number of crimes out there. Every big city has crime. Bombay is the biggest city of India. So, naturally, all crimes in Bombay get banner headlines.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

I think Calcutta is that kind of a market that if you are a Delhi or a Bombay designer, they feel they are being shortchanged and given stock that isn't fresh.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

'Bombay Boys' is among my favourite movies and my favourite performance of myself.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

Bombay feels like a second home now. I have adapted to the lifestyle of the city.

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

The theme of 'Bombay' will make you fall in love with it again and again.

Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

There is a psychology of Bombay.

I have been in Bombay for the last 18 years; I have been on my own. I have travelled wherever I've wanted to.

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.