Varun Dhawan Quotes

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a 'movie star' would be a very dangerous place.

My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.

I would love to play the villain, but again, it sort of what happens in this industry.

I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

I did 'The Vow' because I really love being in love.