Quotes from Sushant Singh Rajput

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises when we try to counter this insecurity by cultivating this illusion of control, and we start taking ourselves and everything we know too seriously.

I'm a trained engineer, so I'm conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it's so subjective.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.

I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

I wanted to be a cricketer. But I was not skilled enough to be a national-level cricketer.

I will continue doing things irrespective of the medium as long as I'm excited about it.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

I have four elder sisters, and being the youngest, I was pampered.

I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family's expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.

If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

If 'Befikre' was representing the new-age youth of India and romance as what it was claiming, it would have been great irrespective of the box-office numbers. But unfortunately, it didn't do that, and hence, I would not be interested.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

I am learning the importance of living in the moment.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

If you spend time with your loved ones, you get the energy to do your job better.

I have been blessed with strong leg muscles, and dancing really exercises one's legs.

Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

When I was in the eighth standard, I would dance to 'Suraj hua madham.' I have to achieve many things before I become even the 'S' of SRK.