Mahira Khan Quotes

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for.

I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.

There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.

I was one of the shortlisted girls for the female lead of the Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' along with Freida Pinto.

I'd love to be in a movie at some point.

I can never forget Sridevi's determination to make it big in Bollywood.

Was it my lifelong ambition to be in the movie business? No.

I would love to be in a biopic, but I'm not looking at being a part of Bolywood.

If I get a call from Imtiaz Ali or Zoya Akhtar to star in their films, I won't think twice.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.