27 Quotes by Arvind Swami

While dealing with kids, it's very important to talk to them about what they would like to do.

I had no intention of being an actor in the first place. But it all started when I was 20, and by the time I was 28, it was stifling me.

I now have the experience of life and all I've seen. I came in when I was in my twenties and I wasn't prepared to be an actor. Then there was my sabbatical, my accident and I was single-parenting my kids. Your mind expands, you become mature and you feel liberated. I don't care about being conventional. I want to be daring.

By nature, I am very curious. I don't think it's fair for anybody to keep your ideas bottled up out of fear. I take a lot of inputs from others. Whether I use them or not is a different issue.

I was very young when I made my debut, I was almost like a kid getting that kind of success and adulation which was difficult to cope.

When I joined films, I was clueless about the industry and had no aspirations to be an actor.

I have always tried to experiment with roles.

I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.

I just want to be myself. I want to act in films and not expect any special treatment. I carry my own bags on sets, I don't have assistants around me.