'Whatever scrapings are left is dished out to people like me.'
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'The training started with guns, knife fights...'
'Kangana is such a stylo, she knows what will look good on her.'
'It is a big historical moment for Indian content.'
'I had been getting many offers, but either something had nudity or sex or abusive language.' 'I am not interested in doing all this just for the sake of it.'
Neeraj Pandey, who makes his debut on the digital platform, tells us what to expect.
'I was getting paid great money.' 'I was a part of some wonderful films, which I loved making, but I was becoming very complacent with my approach to my work.' 'And I did not want that.'
'...Your confidence.' 'You go through this emotional roller coaster ride, which affects your partner as well.'
'D Company is obviously not a registered company, but the way he organised it, with his kind of vision, which finished the Pathan gang and the older members.'
Sanjay Mishra's beautiful home is where he holds his script-reading sessions, costume trials and look tests. He throws the doors open for us.
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'I wanted to know whether I should stay in Paris or do something else, and in less than a week, I got the call for The Last Hour.'
'Good actors are supposed to be guys who wear kurta-pajama and look soft and nice.' 'People like me are not in that category.'
'MeToo is about people who were exploited, and who are now trying to come out and say things out loud.'
'I feel grateful that people are at home and are looking for something to watch.'
'Umrao Jaan has a beautiful soundtrack, and has been very dear to us right from our childhood days. We felt it had the perfect story to recreate for a stage musical.'
'When Zubeida came, everybody loved me and I got a slew of offers of the same kind.' 'People started saying, "Aap nayi Aruna Irani ban jayegi".'
'I was about 27 at that point in time, and I knew that if I didn't take this leap then, I wouldn't take the leap ever.'
'When you're an outsider, the journey to make it to your first film is a movie by itself.' 'It has struggle, pain, rejection, transformation...'
'When they were looking for an action girl, I wanted my name to be right on top.'
'A friend of mine said she grew up not liking cricket. She hated cricket.' 'But she said when I was watching your film, I suddenly had a life-altering moment when I thought that if this is what cricket does to you, then have I missed out on a large part of my life?' 'I got tears in my eyes when I read that.'
'If you are dark, you can't be a hero.' 'If you have curly hair, you can't be a hero.' 'If you were muscular, you had to become a fighter.' 'Today if you are muscular, you can be a hero.' 'Salman Khan made being muscular fashionable.'
'That climax in the last episode of Season one, I have replayed it so many times that it is still fresh in my mind.' 'If you have a wound and if you keep picking on it, it will never heal.'
'I knew that since I would be designing for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film, the aesthetics would have to be correct.' 'He doesn't show poverty in his films.' 'He won't show someone standing on the streets in phate hue kapde.'
'There is so much you learn on a Mira Nair set.'
'I got an offer to do a cameo in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin.' 'I did it just to get out of my house, and so that my parents would not see me so depressed.'
'I don't know if I became an actor, I was just trying to book jobs and survive.'
'As a family, we were not going through a very good time financially.' 'I wanted to be an interior designer, but I didn't have enough money to join the polytechnic.' 'I was about 15-and-a-half, 16, so I said okay, let me just try (acting).'
'Both Madhuri and Aishwarya adjusted well with each other.' 'They did not crib that one got good moves and the other did not.'
'Deepika always got all the jobs she auditioned for.' 'There was really no stopping her.'
'Anger comes from a sense of righteousness, when you believe that you are right.' 'Nothing makes me angry.'
'She's the best actor in the family,' her dad, arguably the finest actor in all of Bollywood, said later.
'After 23 years of making films, you feel vindicated that you stuck to your guns and continues to try different things.'
'I got a call from Shah Rukh Khan.' 'Gana leak ho gaya,' he said. 'Leak ho gaya, toh ho gaya. Nikal jayega,' I said. 'And that's what happened.' 'Chammak Challo went viral overnight!'
Rediff.com's Ronjita Kulkarni recalls her meeting with the author who was slain by the Taliban on Thursday.
'The feeling that you can go out for a coffee, that feeling of freedom would be nice.'
Bryan Adams sent Ronjita Kulkarni and several hundred Mumbaikars to Heaven!
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