Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

I can do a film only if it excites me as an actor.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be something that I'm only 'sort of' into. I knew that 'The Stand' would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

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I was never in this for the money. It's all about the passion for the music.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I do my music for me, second for my entourage, and at the end, for the people. It's healthy to work that way.

I see all these professional photographers out at the racetrack, and there's all these people across the world, taking really cool pictures and you're like, 'Man, I want to create that!' I had that mindset when I first grabbed a camera.

Being surrounded by creativity and talent is very enriching - not in terms of money but in terms of the soul and the spirit.

Whenever I think I'm going to do two films a year, I get another wonderful story, like 'Stree', and I'm like, 'Wow!'

Man, failure was not an option whatsoever, 'cause I'm here to play music - that's what I've been put on earth for.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

Unless they excite me, I don't sign a movie.

When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

No matter which way you do it you need to make something happen and get a song that makes you feel a certain way, whether that's making you tap your foot or beat someone up or whatever you're doing, you just need some passion about it.

An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn't challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?