Quotes from Randeep Hooda

We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.

Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.

When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.

You can't get angry with a horse. They will get angry and frisky with you.

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.

None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.