26 Quotes by Mammootty

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

I have done great characters in Malayalam, too. In that sense, there was nothing special about my acting as Ambedkar. But I am sure that this is a great venture, and I will get a lot of exposure in India and abroad. I have tried my best to do maximum justice to the character.

The love and liking that people have for me has bowled me over, and I am simply overwhelmed.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

Tell me one industry where there are no problems. Whatever problems are there are similar to the problems faced elsewhere.

There were no clippings of Ambedkar. The only thing I had was a two-and-a-half minute film which I saw countless times. Nobody knows how he walked, how he spoke, or how he behaved. I had to conceive all those things in my mind. I had to work a lot on the make-up, too.

Culturally, I remember listening to Salil Chowdhury's music for Malayalam films. Many Bengali actors have worked in our films, too.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.