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I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

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The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

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Om Puri

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

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I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.