Quotes from Vicky Kaushal

When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.

During my engineering days, we were taken for an industrial visit. I realised that I can't do a regular job.

Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.

My father said he will always support me but just not as an action director. It is a deal between both of us. He is an inspiration because he is a self-made man. I want to set that same example for my kids. I will fight it out.

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

People would be amazed that I've grown up in Bombay and not Banaras.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

I would like to take up any kind of film that comes my way if I find the story interesting and challenging.

As a kid, I grew up watching movies in the cinema, so that dream and charm will never die.

It's been a surreal journey for me since 'Masaan.' The way the industry has accepted me and motivated me has been amazing.

One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.

My job is to give my best, and where my journey would take me is something that I have left to God. I am not much of a planner; I am more of a doer.

I did engineering, and when people asked me my career plans, I used to say I would do an MBA.

I was born in a 10x10 room of a chawl, and we shared a common bathroom with other people in the neighbourhood.

I was always active on stage - taking part in dance competitions, skits, and plays.

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

'Raman Raghav' will break my image of cute boy-next-door. My character in the film is mad, demented, very aggressive. He is a good cop but has his own issues.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

I feel there's a halo around me, a constant sunshine wherever I go.

When I was growing up, my father never got his profession to the house. We didn't discuss films on the dining table.