Top 260 Mumbai Quotes

Whenever I feel like the hustle of Mumbai is suffocating me, I just hop on a plane and jet off to Goa for three to four nights.

I said no to too many projects in Mumbai because I felt that it wouldn’t have established me as an actor.

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

I lost my mother to cancer, so once Masaba was born, my father moved from Old Delhi to live with me in Mumbai.

Mumbai is becoming more and more of a nightmare.

Rohinton Mistry’s celebrated novel ‘Such a Long Journey’ was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

Mumbai is not safe anymore.

I’m a loner, and I’m most comfortable living by myself, but Bengaluru is home for me, as my family is there. Having said that, once you come to Mumbai, you can’t turn your back on it. I’ve grown close to Mumbai now.

Though I love driving, I am not much of a long drive person. In Mumbai, we hardly have roads for long drives and the highways are mostly clogged up with traffic.

I had a fantastic couple of years with Mumbai but I am now excited about the challenge with Rajasthan. It will be great to play alongside Ben Stokes, while any time you get to play in the IPL it is a fantastic experience.

I’m a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

I am a Gujarati, born and brought up in Mumbai.

Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band.

I came to Mumbai from a village to become a good actor and fortunately I have really got much love from my industry and audience and that is really satisfactory for me.

Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it’s pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai – it’s the same.

When I came to Mumbai, I was just 19 years old and did the TV show, ‘Remix’. Thereafter, I just fell in love with acting.

I want bikers to ride safely, wear helmets and realise that their families are waiting at home for them. Even in Mumbai, I have seen that they don’t wear helmets and are always in a hurry.

When I came back to Mumbai after boarding school, I was 16 and I picked up weight training and yoga. This is when I also started dance classes and Pilates and then I started doing different workouts every month. I am now proficient in kick boxing, gymnastics, classical dance as well as yoga.

When I look back at my journey, it gives me a sense of confidence. I have been through an odd journey from Delhi to Mumbai, struggling, not having a job, shifting houses… Today, I am giving interviews. So it does give me gratitude and confidence. The fear is gone.

When I came to Mumbai, I didn’t know a soul. The only person I knew was an assistant director, which, everyone agrees, is the lowest form of life on the set. So, it was not a great contact to have. So, I knew from day one that I wasn’t going to be launched opposite a superstar.

What I really miss about Mumbai’s Durga Puja is the positivity and the synergy.

I feel I haven’t quite settled in Mumbai. One, it is a cultural shock for me and two, I feel no one really has the time for others in Mumbai. For instance, if you need them, they wouldn’t be there despite swearing allegiance to you.

I first came to Mumbai by train, without a reserved ticket. I stood by the door and slept in the space next to the washroom. I know what struggle is.

The first eight years in Mumbai were specially tough. I knew during the first two months of my stay that there’s no point waiting for hours to meet producers. They won’t meet you and definitely won’t give you a role.

I’ve been living in Mumbai for a long time now, and the city has grown on me and even become my home for all practical reasons. But I’ll always be a Vizag girl at heart.

Back in 1981, when I had moved to Mumbai from Delhi and literally lived on the streets, I started accepting any role that came my way.

After I remarried, I moved out of India because I did not have much work in Mumbai. But whenever I visited India, I would get in touch with my sons Jessy, Jeeko, and Jaan.

I have learnt from many experienced players in the Mumbai team as well as the India A team how to be consistent. That helps a lot to ensure that I don’t get into bad form.

India. From Goa to Kerala and Mumbai, it gets me every time. It’s the food, the people, and the colours. The magical atmosphere and the accepting nature of the locals.

If you look at any Mumbai guy, he starts to handle pressure at a very young age. Starts at the school level, then the pressure from parents, from the coaches.

I was born in Mangalore, where my nani lived, but was raised throughout in Mumbai.

Boyfriend denims are great for Mumbai weather and comfortable to wear.

We lived in a slum area in the suburbs of Mumbai.

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they’re in New York or Mumbai.

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It’s Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai.

I am an engineer by profession, but I knew I wanted to act. My parents always encouraged me, and when my father shifted to Mumbai for work for a brief while, I came along.

When I moved to Mumbai for college, it was bit of a culture shock.

We are not only having a great audience for Punjabi films in north India but we are also seeing growth in other places like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Indore, etc. And the overseas audiences have always been good for us. Without them we couldn’t have taken Punjabi cinema to such heights.

I realized you cannot stay away from Mumbai and pursue your dreams.

We go to parties in pajamas. And that is true of a lot of people in Mumbai.

I’ve always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It’s a shame there is no race in India because it’s a great facility and I always enjoyed racing there.

I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the same.

After completing school, I shifted to Mumbai in 2007. I started training under different teachers.

I have great expectations about ‘Trance.’ It has been in the making for two years and we shot in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, places in Kerala and in Mumbai.

My whole outlook towards women changed after ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania.’ I am a boy who is brought up in Mumbai, and I believe I am open-minded. But I realised that there were so many things my mind was not expanded to.

I am born and brought up in Mumbai. I have grown up watching Hindi films. So I belong here, I feel.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

I moved to Mumbai to pursue my degree after high school.

People think that when you work in the south you will be driving in a Ferrari in Mumbai but that’s not true.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

In Mumbai you have people of all cast and religion.

There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. ‘Company,’ ‘Life In A Metro,’ ‘Ek Chalis Ki Last Local’ – they all have presented Mumbai in a different manner.

While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj.

My mother supported me when I wanted to change my career and wanted to come to Mumbai from Delhi. She supported me when I wanted to be an actor. It is her prayers, blessings and strength because of which I am here today.

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 has to go through a struggle period, and I was no different. When I came to Mumbai from Delhi, I didn’t know anybody, and all my relationships had to be built up from scratch, including my work relationships.