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“What I am always careful about is not to repeat the same kind of roles.”
“I love being an actor. So, when I am the baddie on screen, I am just doing my job and I am doing it with love and honesty.”
“My mother was a professor of English and History.”
“Gymming for me is as important as breathing or brushing my teeth.”
“When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.”
“I have been waiting for a film like 'Maximum.' I have learnt so many things while shooting this film. The entire cast has been a pleasure to work with.”
“Playing Arjuna was one of the most special experience because as kids we have seen 'Mahabarata,' we have read about Arjuna, and one day you get a chance to play that role in the profession that you love the most that one of the most special one of my life.”
“I started with the job of sending migrants back home the day lockdown started, and I will not end this task till the last migrant reaches home. We are working day and night to reach out to everyone so that all of them can reunite with their families.”
“It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.”
“There is no difference working for Hindi or South films; the only difference is the language.”
“I am very shy by nature and I won't even have told people about my birthday, had I not been an actor.”
“Tanushree is a very nice girl and I worked with her once. She is very focussed, and I could see how hard-working she was, with dreams in her eyes. She was one of the well-behaved girls on the set.”
“I don't really have to switch on and switch off because I enjoy the process of enacting a role on the sets, all those mad hours of shoot and then heading home after work. I don't divide it like normal and abnormal life. For me, the entire process of doing my work and heading home is normal.”
“In 'Paltan,' I play a braveheart, Major Bishwant Singh, who was feared by the Chinese. They called him Tiger Nathu La. I feel blessed to have got an opportunity to play a real-life hero and bring to screen an untold story of our history.”
“I was offered a role in 'Dabangg 2,' but after reading the script, I didn't feel there was much space for my character in the film.”
“Frankly speaking, from day one, I've been offered solo leads, but I did not take up any of them. For me, it has to be the right script and the right director before I launch myself in Tollywood in a lead role.”
“Four places in the country hold great importance in my life - Punjab, where I was born, Nagpur, where I did my engineering and where my wife is from, Bombay where I work and obviously, Hyderabad, where I learnt the craft of cinema.”
“It's not like if I am an actor, my kids also will have to become one.”
“I don't think there is anyone who hasn't heard about Dawood Ibrahim or seen his pictures. It was very important for me, not to just get the look right, but also to learn the way he smoked, the command he had over people, etc.”
“My dad got selected in the Indian Army, but he was not allowed to go, as my grandparents had reservations.”