Quotes from Ayushmann Khurrana

I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

I am not in every picture I post, and my social media is not only for film promotions. I don't feel comfortable with that. Yes, I'll post something promotional now and then, but rest of the time, it is like any other social media account.

From musicals to plays, I was part of all things theatrical all through my school life in Chandigarh, and this helped me develop a strong love for theatre and acting. Even during college, I was active in the theatre scene and even founded two theatre groups.

With 'Badhaai Ho,' the lines are so quirky and the situation is so humorous, awkward, and bizarre that people are taking away a lot from the film. The dialogues are amazing. We aren't trying to make people laugh, but the situation is like that, that people are laughing.

I'd love to do a film on homosexuality. That's on my radar.

It feels great that with the film choices I have been making have been quite radical and different. I am glad they are commercially working.

I am glad I am born in this era, but, at the same time, my success will totally depend on the choices I make.

A good script can come from anywhere.

I have realised that life is never perfect.

I have realised that at the end of the day, I have to detach from my films, just do my job, and move on.

Your family can keep you grounded, make you keep things real.

My gut has never let me down.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

The running thread of my career has been different scripts.

Lots of people expect 'Andhadhun' to be a dark film, given it's from Sriram Raghavan. But this film is fun, entertaining, thrilling, and while it has moments of darkness, overall it's not a dark film.

I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose scripts, I take out the garb of an actor-slash-star, and I consume the script as a layman.

I started pretty young: I did my first reality show when I was 17. Then came 'Roadies' in 2004, when I was 19.

To begin with, I always want to go for scripts that do not have a reference in Hindi cinema. If it is novel and unique, it definitely has a better shelf value.

I think everyone is a hero in their own right.

Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.

I have grown up watching conventional films. I am a huge fan.

'Vicky Donor' dealt with a taboo topic, but it was a family entertainer and not cringe-worthy, which helped make it a commercial success.

You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.