Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

There is no reason why a serious film, one about life, can't be enjoyable, maybe even fun. Emotions can be very entertaining, you know. I try to use them generously in my films.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

If people can see you in a film and not realize it's you until the very end, that's exciting to me.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

The impact that movies, film, and TV have on me - the way that they can toy with my emotions - is beautiful, and I've always wanted to do that for other people.

Every film is a journey.

It was a completely different experience working on 'Chhichhore' with Nitesh sir. The way he narrates and the way he directs actors is completely unique. He has that rare quality of blending a great story with finely-etched characters and an underlying message.

I want to make the movies that move people in a way they've never been moved before.

It's the worst thing if you're sitting there in the theater, going, "Oh, that's the guy who dates this person and likes to do this in the morning and that in the afternoon." Then you're just watching a brand, as opposed to an actor.

Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunate that I have always been forced to stand on my acting ability. I haven't a personality such as Jack Gilbert's, for instance, that attracts women and makes them like me for myself. When I am on the screen I must make them forget me entirely and think only of my acting.

It's a very different thing when you're able to read something and see it in your mind, then to imagine it on screen. It's emotional transference that you don't have in literature that you have in movies. People invest in the person they see on the screen and they can't shift gears.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

I greatly admire how the essence of Nitesh Tiwari's films resonate with you long after you've left the theatre.

If an actor can emotionally bond with the viewer, then it does not matter if he is handsome or ordinary looking.

An actor is nothing without the vision of the director. The director needs to have a vision that will cross boundaries, that makes the audience sit on the edge of their seats and that pushes the envelope.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

For me, there's something about a certain kind of genre film that has real potency in its emotional landscape.

I'm obsessed with Maggie Smith - the way that she can be the most brilliant actress in every single situation and then do Harry Potter, and still make me cry while she's casting spells with a wand?

At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally.

The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons.

I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.