Irrfan Khan Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.
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I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!
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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
