Quotes from Ranvir Shorey

Award shows come with a price tag. You have to lobby and I don't have the acumen for such stuff. Maybe that's the reason I hardly have any award.

In our industry star kids are given opportunities. There is no dearth of films for them.

I feel I've been deliberately sidelined by the mainstream filmmakers, but I don't let that bother me. If I start thinking about that, I'll lose focus on what I need to do and have to do.

Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's a historical role or one that requires training in accent.

I think corporal punishment is the shortest, most impatient, flawed way of teaching or making a child understand something.

I would like to direct. I am also happy helping other directors realise their vision. I am happy being a cog in a wheel.

Ironically India is the hub of animation outsourcing, but our own productions have been anything but fabulous.

If there's comfort factor, all the other differences can be bridged! But, it's difficult to work with those whom you can't stand personally!

Haroon's birth really had a profound effect on me and I think it had on Konkona also. It is fabulous, it is the best thing that has happened to me. Such a beautiful feeling I can't tell you. It's a beautiful experience.

Fatherhood has changed me a lot.

Fatherhood does affect your work decisions.

Fears are a part of our personality.

I like considering myself as someone in the film business.

I don't plan my life or analyse things. Nothing can be predicted about the future, no one can put a finger on what's going to be the next big thing. Why bother?

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

I have decided never ever to put on weight again. Not even if Francis Ford Coppola were to offer me a role in exchange for putting on 25 kilos!

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

I have no qualms being a character actor.

I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.

Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.

When you hear Bollywood, you think about everything mainstream, song-and-dance, hero-heroine. I don't think that will ever go away.

Actors who are super successful are the ones who thrive on the image by creating their forte.

The entertainment business can't thrive without putting you in a box.

I did 'Ek Tha Tiger,' but I wasn't in 'Tiger Zinda Hai.' I know and I feel that I'm ignored.