Jackie Shroff Quotes

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

I expect a kiss-my-ass-at-high-noon-in-Macy's-window loyalty.

Napoleon is always right.

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.

Tyler Perry's 'Madea Goes to Jail!' Which, I have to tell you, of everything that I've ever done in my career, that's the only thing that's perked up the ears of my nieces and nephews. That is it, that's done it for them. That made me a bona fide star in their eyes!

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Dylan can do no wrong.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

I think if Roman Polanski had asked me to do the phone book, I would have said, 'Yes.'

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

'Badmaash Company' and 'Delhi Belly' was about friends, and I was part of the gang. And yes, they did have stars playing the lead! You do need a star to sell a film; and playing the second lead doesn't bother me.

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franchise and didn't need stars. But the real difference between stars and celebrities is that stars have training and talent, and celebrities just have exposure.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. Whomever he told me to bite, I bit.

My love of country admits of no limitations, makes no concessions…It is …blind, prejudiced and passionate.

Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.