Quotes from Vicky Kaushal

When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

Subconsciously, there was always an actor inside me. But while growing up, it was a very normal childhood because my dad never got films to the dining table and never discussed films.

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

When you get an opportunity to work in good films like 'Raazi,' it boosts your confidence to know that good filmmakers are willing to work with you.

I feel lucky to be able to work with such great filmmakers on such wonderful stories.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

It's a reality that you get boxed and stereotyped, but I am not afraid of that. It's my quest as an actor to explore different territories.

I unleashed my wilder side in 'Manmarziyaan' while playing the character, who is impulsive, colourful, does things without thinking too much.

There are media houses which put headline with a question mark, and that is how they can get away without taking the accountability of the allegation. They put the question mark. Let's analyze it a little - a common reader will not remember the question mark: they will remember the allegation.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

I aspire to be a part of a good story, because then, the actor will automatically shine through.

I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.

I realise that film industry is a brittle and fragile world, but I'm ready to face it all because I'm too much in love with this space.

'Raazi,' for me, is a human story - it's much more than just a spy thriller.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

I will keep working hard in future as well so that audience will keep showering their love upon me.

My father never got films to our dinner table. It was never the case with us as well that our father works in films, and we know so many actors. It was like him going to work like any other father. In fact, my school friends would ask me if I have met a certain actor, and I would tell them that I haven't, which they found strange.

I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.

When I am playing the protagonist of the film, before the release, I feel a certain pressure because I become the face of the film, then, and I have a major responsibility.

I know that in Bollywood, there is this constant talk on which actor's film is minting how much money, but we are living in a time where the focus is shifting from 'actor's responsibility' to the result of a great team work. I believe filmmaking is about that.

I was a huge fan of Hrithik Roshan.