Paresh Rawal Quotes

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

Since I am an actress and not a social activist, cinema is the best medium for me to state my views.

I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.