Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

It's an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

I don't go there much. You're thrilled that people would recognize what you're doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don't know if anybody's really going to like what you're doing when you put a record out or if anybody's going to pay attention to it, you can't really go there.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.

It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.

I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.

I'm recognized, let me put it that way.

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

Don't I deserve just as much credit for picking out the man who could write it?

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it.

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

I just want people to respect me as an actor. Now, whether that makes me a star or not doesn't really matter.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

Any time you get a Hall of Fame player that even knows my name, you're going to be pumped up about that.

I am comfortable in my space in Punjabi cinema.

I've seen people being in awe of Anurag Kashyap, but I'm not a fangirl.

In Chile and in other places, people recognize me, and everything I've been able to pick up from this experience is people caring about me.

Nah, I don't feel overlooked, underappreciated, or none of that because it's a short list of artists, past and present, that I kind of have respect for. And in all of those situations, the admiration and respect is mutual.