Keerthy Suresh Quotes

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

It is a humbling experience to work with Duttsaab and Amitji, who was my dad's costar in so many films.

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

What I've noticed about celebrities is, if they are really successful, they're more down-to-earth.

Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

The rest - all the hoopla, the acclaim - doesn't really matter a lot to Joel and Ethan [Coen]. They just want to get the chance to continue to work. And that blew my mind. To be at that level and to have that humility, it was eye-opening and inspiring.

I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it's beautiful. This is what I want to be.

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to LA like a lot of people or been too drawn in by that.

It looks glamorous and wonderful, but it's a job like any other. And I think that's their humility coming through, Joel [Coen] and Ethan's [Coen] humility. I think they really believe they are tradesmen, craftsmen, and they're just pursuing their trade, their craft, and doing the best they can with it.

I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously because I love doing it, and I love being in films and making films, but I don't take myself seriously.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

I never talk about filming until I'm actually on the set and I've got the job, because otherwise - "Oh yeah, I'm going to be so busy," and then you're going to see me in McDonald's in two months.

I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant. Yeah. And I go, 'Brilliant teams of makeup and wardrobe happened to dress me and clothe me and put my face on and do my hair. And then these brilliant teams of writers give me words to speak. I just need to make sure that I have them all in this combination in my body, in my being, and then I get to do it on camera, in front of a brilliant team of camera workers who really know how to like me and make me sound good.' So I'm just really a dork in real life.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.