103 Quotes by Naseeruddin Shah

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

Learning a craft is up to you, whether you are doing theatre or movies.

In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.

One would marvel on the screen the way Shammi Kapoor walked, Dilip Kumar cried, or seeing Dev Anand's style. And then, one day, you are in the same space with them. It's very unreal.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life.

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.