Quotes from Nawazuddin Siddiqui

If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

Like the way we get to know about the society of Korea, Iran, and other countries through their films, people will get to know about our country. Our films are a mirror of our society.

I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.

Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.

There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.

The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

I was shooting for 'Kahaani' and 'GOW' back to back. I was in a village on work, where a man extended a paper to me. For a minute I thought he wanted another actor's autograph. I looked back and forth, but there was no one. That was quite an experience.

I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.

Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.

I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.