Quotes About Diversity

I am definitely interested in doing films in Bollywood. And not only in Hindi - I am open to working anywhere in the country, even if it is Punjabi.

Hindi film industry makes film for the rest of the world. Tamil films are watched by Malay people. When a film is not bound by a language, why should an actor be?

I would love to do better in mainstream Hindi films, but one thing I must say is that my best experience so far has been in the Punjabi film industry, where I've been around for more than 11 years.

If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to Marathi or Bhojpuri to Bengali, I would be happy to do it.

I can read and write in Hindi.

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

I like all kinds of music, be it old Hindi movie songs or English classics.

I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

Now that I am a part of the Hindi film industry, I hope I can do different roles with a lot of scope.

I know Hindi.

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

I want to do exciting work. For the same reason, I was fine working in Marathi, Hindi or French films for that matter.

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

I've been offered bi-linguals and tri-linguals to be made in Hindi and south languages.

We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!

There are many, doubtless, who have not yet got farther in love than their own family; but there are others who have learned that for the true heart there is neither Frenchman nor Englishman, neither Jew nor Greek, neither white nor black—only the sons and daughters of God, only the brothers and sisters of the one elder brother.

For essential beauty is infinite; and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces of beauty springing forth, not any two the same, at any one of her heart-throbs; so the individual form needs an infinite change of its environments, to enable it to uncover all the phases of its loveliness.

there is plenty of room for meeting in the universe.

Not every man that thinks the other way is a rogue or a fool.

There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.

Even if you are a minority of one it does not make you wrong

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.