Top 33 Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I don’t think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn’t be able to sleep properly.

‘Pressure’ is not a word that I associate with very much; it is a matter of perspective. It depends on your disposition as a person. It can either be that you are pressurised by something, or you can be motivated and encouraged by it.

I like to mix it up, so I do Parkour, play football, dance… I am a dancer, essentially.

Language is something that I take great interest in.

I believe it’s always important to listen to the call of your heart.

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

My acting style changes according to the way a character is imagined.

There are a lot of people who are overly judgemental on the Internet.

I’ve worked towards self-development as an aspiring artiste. I’ve been most passionate about dancing and acting, so I have followed it obsessively.

I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.

I never attended any acting school, though I’ve done theatre workshops a couple of times, and it has been an extremely enriching experience. But beyond that, I don’t want to acquire the skills of acting and use them on camera. I’d rather learn on the job.

Actors can become technically sound, but honesty always translates, even if you are not doing a lot of things on camera.

It was a great learning experience to work with all the stalwarts associated with ‘Beyond the Clouds.’ It’s indeed a strong team to be working with.

I love to play varied roles. That’s the most exciting thing for me.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

I feel fame shouldn’t necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.

I would be open to doing cinema anywhere in the world. I wouldn’t want to restrict myself to a certain kind of cinema or a certain language or get typecast.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

‘Sairat’ is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.

For someone who doesn’t have a family associated with the industry, they obviously find it tougher to get cast in a film, simply because opportunities are taken up by people who are given preference.

I wasn’t very academically inclined, growing up as a child, and the only subject I was good at was English. I had a flair for it, since I came from a literary background.

I’m not a method actor because it refers to a certain kind or technique of acting that I have studied about, and I know I’m not one of them.

I have been passionate about dancing and acting as long as I I can remember. It was a natural progression to make it my passion, pursue it, learn more about it, and develop myself as a performer.

I am not somebody who is very fashionable. I do not pay much heed to what I wear. I am very erratic in that sense.

I haven’t studied acting formally, so my ‘university’ was watching a lot cinema.

I’m proud of my middle-class background because that’s how I’ve grown up. I have my values and sensibilities.

I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.

‘Dhadak’ has its own individuality and a story that deserves to be told to a larger audience.

When there is hate or negative comment, I try to ignore it and try to not bother myself with such stuff.

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.

I believe that the environment at home has been fairly secular and liberal. And most times, it comes from my mother. Our culture is very strong, but at the same time, she’s a very free-spirited person. She’s an artiste, and that’s the environment I grew up in, where films and music were respected and meditated upon.

Shahid’s been a big influence in my life.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.