Words matter. These are the best Dev Anand Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.
A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.
People have always complained that we have made films ahead of times. ‘Hum Dono’ is still modern. We had wars then, and we have wars today. We had love and separation then, and we have that today.
Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I’m a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
I think an individual’s mind is a marvellous thing. I truly believe that if your mind is strong, your body tries hard to keep pace with it.
I wish I am born again as Dev Anand, and people will see a young star 25 years later. That will give me some time to finish what I want to do.
I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.
Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think ‘Hum Dono’ gave me a great double role – I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the ‘haw-haw’ type of major.
Other black and white films have also been released in colour, but ‘Hum Dono’ is better than all of them. When you watch ‘Hum Dono Rangeen,’ you will feel as though it was shot in colour; you won’t feel that I have got the reels painted by brush.
No film should be meaningless.
‘Hum Dono’ was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.
Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.
It’s an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.
I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes – I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
My life is the same, and I am at a beautiful stage at 88. I am as excited as I was in my 20s.
Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.
Anybody whose film becomes a hit is a superstar. Today there is somebody, and tomorrow there will be somebody else. No single woman or man has a monopoly for all time.
I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.
