Quotes from Pratik Gandhi

What changed after 'Scam' on a bigger level was the way the audience and the makers started looking at me as an actor.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

For an actor, nothing can be more blissful than a packed date diary!

Humour plays a vital part in any 'Bhavai' performance and is seen in plays.

Sanjeev Kumar is one actor whose performances have inspired me. The way he looked and the way he performed are two different things. That gives me a lot of confidence that look and all do not always matter.

I have always felt a special bond with Ganpati Bappa.

Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.

I don't succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

To be honest, I've never invested in the stock market. My grandmother used to warn us against the stock exchange. My grandfather had lost a lot money in the share market. We are a working class family.

Scam' gave me a national or I would say global platform which made me a household name. I am getting such a lot of love, appreciation, and acceptance from the audience and makers and that's a very satisfying feeling.

Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.

It's very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it's true.

I don't think any two individuals, especially artistes, can be or should be compared. We are different human beings. The way we think, feel, emote is bound to be different.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

Mohan No Masalo' is a play very dear to me.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

There is so much diversity in India in terms of religion, schools of thought, everything.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, we are humans and I am here in the entertainment industry for experiments, to create new characters and to tell stories, that's it. I don't think much about success. It will keep changing with every project.

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.

I am open to working in all southern language - Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

In 2012, I got my first Gujarati film. After that, a lot of things changed for me and for the Gujarati film industry. I did my early films by taking leave from my engineering job.

Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I've seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.