Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.

Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to learn during the journey.

Never take your critics lightly. You must always try to win them over by your hard work. Don't brush them off.

The time spent for 'Baahubali' taught me a lot.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

I guess the first big name I worked with was Sissy Spacek, and that was really interesting just because she's so incredible and I learned so much from just watching her. But she's also so unassuming that I loved working with her. It wasn't like working with a star, it was Sissy. Not a big deal.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

Personally, it all feels like I've been filming just one long film the whole time and I have no personal like or dislike for any of the films that I've done. I feel like all of the all of them are important to me, all of the cast and all the staff that I've worked with have also been very important to me.

It'd be an honor to play anywhere.

I feel the first ten years of my career I really didn't care what the director said because I felt so arrogant. I was so certain about what should happen. But then I became a good listener.

Tendulkar is my idol in cricket, and one thing I try to pick up from him is how he carries himself in a humble manner.

Over the years people would ask me which co-star have you been a fan of or admired. I have always said Rishi Kapoor and Kamal Haasan. They are my two co-stars from whom I have really learnt a lot. I have been a great fan of both of them.

If I know somebody's right about something I take it from them.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.