Top 232 Hindi Quotes

I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don’t speak like people normally do in real life.

I would love to work on a Hindi film if I get the right opportunity.

For an actor, one doesn’t have to be a dancer. But because our Hindi movies have so many song and dance sequences, it is preferred if they are good dancers. It’s always advantageous to know dance. But if you don’t, it’s okay.

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

My Hindi was not very good, but I guess people liked my accent and gave me Hindi roles.

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage on to the Hindi cinema the way he does.

If it’s a Hindi film, it has to have a Hindi title.

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 would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn’t offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

I can read and write in Hindi.

See, I am an ardent fan of David Lean. I cannot do a shot like David Leans’ in a Malayalam film because the budget does not permit me. Those dreams, I mean the glossy dreams of mine, can be fulfilled only in Hindi films.

I don’t see a future for Broadway-style theatre in India. We already have Hindi cinema, but small, intimate theatre will survive as long as people feel the need to talk to each other.

Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

I have been doing Bollywood movies for a while, but my fans back home are always with me. They support me irrespective of whether I am working in a Bengali or a Hindi movie.

The film-watching crowd are mainly youngsters who see fashion on TV, in Hindi films, and in magazines.

My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of them is a fantasy-adventure, while the other is a thriller. I’ve assisted my brother Selvaraghavan, who’s a well-known director in Tamil cinema. I’ve also made short films.

I don’t see any difference in Hindi and Telugu television.

I remember I would work in the South industry and Hindi TV industry too along with doing ‘Char Divas Sasuche’ and that was the reason I never got bored.

I didn’t grow up watching Hindi films and loving them, or wanting to become a Bollywood actor. That, to me, was the most fantastical idea.

I am a little disillusioned with Hindi cinema direction. I can experiment with Marathi. But Marathi doesn’t give you a lot of money.

Films like ‘Satya,’ ‘Company’ needed a pan-Indian audience. The affinity for Hindi film and subjects was there.

I guess people feel that if you’re working with good directors and are known in the Hindi film industry, then you won’t work in South films. However, I believe that films have no boundaries of language, religion, or cast. If it’s a good script and a good director, I can do a film in Spanish as well.

I think of ‘Beyond The Clouds’ very fondly. Yes, it has not been seen by a lot of people in theatres. I had anticipated more people would watch it. But that has to do with something I don’t know well: marketing. A lot of people didn’t even know that it was a Hindi film.

Loveleen Tandon, the casting director of ‘Brick Lane,’ understood my capacity and suggested my name to director Sarah Gavron. The film has such universal appeal that given a chance I would like to remake it in Hindi.

During the making of ‘Abdullah’ I asked the assistant director to teach me Hindi; he taught me to read the script too. He also taught me Urdu. Now I can sign autographs in Hindi, Urdu and can write my name in Tamil.

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn’t know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

For a woman who didn’t want to be an actress, who is too tall, lanky, shy, and who didn’t fit into a Hindi conventional heroine, I am overwhelmed that my audiences have accepted me in India and the world.

In Kerala, we prefer slower films unlike the Hindi audiences. Here they want fast films with action in every frame. Also, we don’t have too many songs.

Sure, I have been a part of many Telugu movies, but I got those films because of my Hindi movies.

In 2003, when I wrote the first ‘Dhoom,’ we were at the end of the curve of a certain kind of Hindi film, which was quite plastic. ‘Dhoom’ was unconventional then.

My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.

I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don’t mind acting in them just to earn my bread and butter.

I’ve dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I’m used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.

I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I’ll choose films carefully.

Before me, nobody was making two to three-minute videos in Hindi.

Hindi cinema has only one religion, and that’s money.

It is natural for the national audience to recognize me as an actor through ‘Kahaani’ because the film is in Hindi and has a far wider reach than Bengali films.

I don’t think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren’t appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren’t strong. I sometimes feel that singers aren’t singing, but shouting out loud. Where’s the melody?

Well, I am from an army background. My dad is in the Defence forces and I have travelled enough in the north to get my Hindi right.

It won’t be fair on my part to name one song that brought me fame, but ‘Suit Suit’ from ‘Hindi Medium’ is close to my heart, and it quite turned tables for me.

After ‘Kahaani,’ I received a lot of offers for similar roles – from Hindi as well as Bengali filmmakers. But I didn’t want a repeat performance of Bob.

Music has no language. That’s something I’ve come to believe in even more ever since ‘Kolaveri Di’ happened. I don’t deliberately make separate Tamil, Hindi, or Telugu tracks.

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films… that’s never going to die, but I think it’s amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

If there is place for music that I do in Bollywood, then I would surely like to sing a song in a Hindi film.

What’s exciting is that after all these years, I have made my Bollywood debut. And the reach of the Hindi film industry is huge.

Only three or four thrillers are made in Hindi cinema in a year. There is a fascination for crime genre but producers think thrillers don’t have that much of a market or will not get picked up for satellite rights.

I was a big fan of ‘Bigg Brother’ and ‘Bigg Boss Hindi.’ Hence, I decided to enter the show.

I grew up listening to Hindi and Marathi songs of Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale.

Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.

I definitely want to work in Hindi films.

I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi.

I got good offers from Bollywood because I can speak Hindi very well.

‘Mr. India’ was a turning point. Before that, Hindi moviegoers saw me just as a glamour girl. After ‘Mr. India,’ they felt I could act.

In India I’ve been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it’s in English so it’s a much bigger scale.

Every love story or Hindi film has the same story, but what makes it different is the treatment it’s given. Much depends on how it is stylised, how the characters are moulded, and how the story is treated.

A hero today must be Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan rolled into one. These are the six hero slots in Hindi cinema and an actor must be able to play all if he wants a long innings.