Top 30 Javed Jaffrey Quotes

I enjoy working with shows, which appeal to a wide spectrum – from children to the adults.

I sometimes tell a director that I want to work with him. I tell him twice. After that if he still doesn’t give me a call, I move on.

For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That’s my challenge as an actor.

I think Hyderabadis have the best sense of humour in the entire country and I still remember the famous plays of ‘Adrak Ke Panje’ by Babban Khan and ‘Dhed Matwale.’

I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it’s a principle role and how much it drives the movie.

I have my own production house, which is doing good.

I have played various kinds of roles. There are various territories that I have explored as an actor.

It’s always good to live in future tense.

I am constantly visible in TV shows because anybody who is thinking of a role sees me performing on TV and may say, ‘Why not him?’ That way I am always in the limelight. It’s better than running around for good roles. I can’t lobby for roles.

Some good talent was just hanging around and waiting for someone to spot them and TV gave them the spotlight. Actors got this platform, which is so great, and could accommodate anyone.

Politics for me is not business but a movement of which I am happy to be a part.

When I first saw the trailer of ‘Only For Singles,’ the only thought in my head was that we live in ever evolving times but the problems for singles remain the same.

When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.

Acting is my first love.

I don’t like to insult people and I encourage them.

I so hate the term Bollywood. I know it’s become synonymous with the industry but really we are ‘Indian cinema.’

In a feature film, the question of censorship always comes up.

The making of the documentary is an involving and collaborative process where you go deeper unlike in movies where you just borrow someone else’s script.

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

While there are different genres of comedy, I am for family entertainment.

It’s been a hell of a roller-coaster ride for me.

I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.

I would love to break away from my comic image.

Song, dance and cinema are so deeply within the Indian culture and with so many cultures incorporating their elements too, it has become a wonderful collage.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can’t do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in ‘Afsana.’

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

There is a very thin line when a man plays woman. If you’re not careful, you may end up looking like a eunuch. If you don’t enact your role properly, you can look very bad.

I’m the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.

When we make a comedy film, its important to have a light atmosphere on the sets so that the mood reflects in the film.