R. Madhavan Quotes
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I am a Tambrahm born and brought up in Jamshedpur 20 years of my life, as my father worked for the Tatas there. My mother was a chief manager in the Bank of India and the only lady manager in Bihar in those times.
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All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
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I am a south Indian, so I speak Tamil.
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It took me 15 years of being in the industry to know that you need makeup and styling when you go out, that you need to have PR.
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I always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.
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I studied B.Sc electronics to be an engineer and later did masters in communication and advertising. I loved engineering for what it could accomplish to make our lives easier. But, I realised that it was not my passion.
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When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.
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There is a difference between being educated and academics.
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I told my wife that I want to take a three-year break. She supported me and said, 'Please go ahead.' I am grateful that she supported me. For me, this romance and understanding is very important in our marriage.
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If anybody accuses me of being rich, I give it back to them because I had a poor economical background. I worked my way up, and I am an exemplary citizen, and I always do what is good for my nation.
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When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.
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I struggle on many fronts on having to move to a different level, having to cater to constantly evolving audiences.
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A film star is a film star, and you can't take that away. Hence, I don't think about money when I do films, but I will do it for TV like the way I do it for endorsements.
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I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.
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Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.
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If you have a great story, any film will work.
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I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.
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If I look like a six-pack replete warrior in 'Tanu Weds Manu,' viewers are not going accept me.
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'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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The thing about organic farming is that the produce will not look the same. Your tomato will not resemble the rich red one from the textbook, and that's the beauty of it.
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If you say actors have a social responsibility to do things, you are right, in a way. It's a wishful decision. But if it's done out of force, I don't think it will accomplish anything. Everybody starts counting how much work they have done and see if they have done their due for the week. That is not social service. You need to go way beyond that.
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There is a time in every actor's life when he has to face the self-created hurdle after he starts getting bored of work and suddenly realises that he is left behind.
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I use the Net for a lot of things besides e-mailing. I involve myself in chats with people as part of my research for characters.