Top 18 Abhishek Banerjee Quotes

I’ll always be very proud of giving Priyanshu Painyuli and Siddhant Chaturvedi their first break. Both are phenomenal actors and I am very excited about their future.

I have always been an Amitabh Bachchan fan.

When I came to Mumbai to act and it didn’t work out for me for few years, I thought I will go back to training but casting room has been a great training space for me.

Everybody loves animals, but there is this special bond that few people have with animals and with nature.

It feels great when you get to contribute in a show or a film in several ways. When you see lesser known actors coming in small roles and leaving an impact, you feel like they are your babies.

I love both acting and casting, and the idea will be to pursue both.

Casting director was a part-time thing, which later became a full-time job because there was a lack of casting directors in our industry and people were looking for professionals to do it.

I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.

I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from.

For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not well-sculpted as an actor because I was getting a lot of rejections. I stopped acting and focused on casting.

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

I would not want compliments that ‘I can do different roles’. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That’s how I see acting.

All my characters have their own political thoughts of the world around. If it is not in the script, I put it into them so that they become rooted to the local flavour.

My story is similar to every ordinary Indian boy’s tale. My father wanted me to become an engineer or a professional but I was sure that I have to be in the Hindi film industry. I joined college through the quota for extra curricular activities but I am still not a graduate.

I did ‘Dirty Picture’ when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

When I came to Mumbai, I knew that I am an actor but I am not a working actor. To keep this actor alive, I had to feed him, I took up the casting job so that I can run my house.

When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.

I grew up in Chennai and was very much influenced by Rajinikant’s stardom and importance of cinema in Tamil culture.