'What happens at a time like this is that you always look up to someone for inspiration and strength.'
'I have never had a foul experience in the industry.' 'There are rotten apples everywhere, in your family, relatives, friends circle, colleagues...' 'It's very vulnerable because of the glamour, but it's very heartbreaking to hear bad things about the industry.' 'It's not such a bad place.'
'I don't know what my potential is.' 'This is not some sports where you can measure your speed and strength.' 'This is a continuous journey, where you discover yourself through theatre, cinema and acting.'
'Bobby Deol has a child-like quality which makes you love him instantly.'
'God will give you your due.' 'I don't want my due from people.'
'You cannot drop to the ground, however many bullets hit you.' 'Because if you are weak, this is not the place for you.'
'You can be a great actress, incredibly good looking, have a huge body of work, have National awards... but until you make a mark in a Hindi project, people will not bother.'
Swara Bhasker gives us 10 pointers that would perhaps help us deal with the crisis better.
'The mother-daughter relationship is a unique one.' 'There is love, there is anger, taken for grantedness, so many different things.'
'My mother had a vivacious personality and it had to come out, and Vidya was our only choice.' 'She is mummy on screen!'
'My father could have gotten more due. He was capable of much more.' 'But he was always thankful.'
'My father could have gotten more due. He was capable of much more.' 'But he was always thankful.'
'That the people who matter are the ones who loved you and stood by you when you were not famous or successful.'
'There is so much you learn on a Mira Nair set.'
'Everyone at home has a very strong point of view about how it should have been.' 'So opinions clash, points of view clash.' 'Everyone will have their favourites, and that '"I didn't like that moment in your performance".' '"This was such a kaam-chalao thing you did".'
'It is difficult to speak about Sushant in the past tense.'
'When he came to Bombay, he lived on the streets with his mother.' 'He had to sell whatever little they had in their bags -- their clothes, his toys.' 'When they did not have money, a bakery would sell the bread crumbs fallen on the floor for one paisa in a newspaper.' 'But before eating, they had to take out the rat and cockroach shit from the crumbs.'
'My definition of a true star is when they enter a room, the energy of the room changes.' 'She has the aura of a true star.'
'Nothing comes easy, but I knew what I was getting in to.'
'There were days when we had to shoot the 20-year-old character first and then do the transformed Bulbbul and then return to the 20 year old. Those days were difficult.'