Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

Nobody can link the success of a movie with a particular artiste.

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn't bother me.

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I do not feel intimidated by actors or stars because I was never exposed to films widely.

With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

Hollywood is here to stay, and we have to keep the momentum going.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

No star is bigger than the success of a film.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

Hollywood is driven by beautiful faces. Always has been.

Films make stars and stars never make films.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.