103 Quotes by Naseeruddin Shah

Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.

Sometimes, more money is spent on promotion of a film than the making of it. I don't understand that logic. The movie should run on its merit.

I have had enough of an interesting life to not embellish it in any way.

Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.

Unfortunately, in our country, crying is mistaken for good acting.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

I don't think cinema has the power to change anybody's life.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

When we finally become total slaves of mobile phones, then maybe theatre will die.