R. Madhavan Quotes
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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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My favourite food is definitely paani puri.
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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 don't want to buy a jet plane. I don't want to live with an entourage.
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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 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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Normally, my birthdays are very quiet. I go to the temple with my family and later take blessing from my parents. A few friends come over to my house, and we talk about the year gone by.
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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.
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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 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 you have a great story, any film will work.
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I learned different ways of working out. I learned a lot about my body. Let me just say that Arnold Schwarzenegger had 20-inch biceps when he did his first film, and when I did 'Saala Khadoos,' being a vegetarian, I managed 18 and half inches.
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I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?
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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'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.
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My assistants will bear testimony to the fact that I am a very angry man.
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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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I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.
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When we make a film like 'TWM Returns,' it is important that we don't think of bettering anything. It's like a baby being born: all you can hope for is the best. But you can't decide how the baby is going to look. Similarly with the movie - you can't think of making it better; you only can think of making the best film possible.
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Success, or the lack of it, has a way to make you realise what your boundaries are.
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When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.
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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 realised after doing 'Tanu Weds Manu' that I had become fat and was not performing to the mark. I realised that I had become a terrible actor. I did 'Jodi Breakers,' which did not do well. So, I moved away from the film industry and lived with the common man to know where I was lacking and what do they want from an actor.
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'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.