R. Madhavan Quotes
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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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I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.
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I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.
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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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There is a difference between being educated and academics.
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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 always believe that the elders in my family are the reason for my success.
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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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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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It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.
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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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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 I look like a six-pack replete warrior in 'Tanu Weds Manu,' viewers are not going accept me.
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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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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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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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'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.
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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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If you have a great story, any film will work.
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Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.
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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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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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I don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.