Top 33 Jim Sarbh Quotes

I do have carbon footprints because of travel, but apart from that, I am simple guy.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

My father was the captain of a cargo ship. When I was about two years old, we used to sail with him. The crew of his ship would dress me up in fancy dress and make me dance for them. I was a performing monkey!

I don’t believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

For me, India symbolises a big fire and a big river.

I don’t really know or care about trends.

I’ve been doing plays ever since school. There’s never really been a stop to it.

If the role is complicating and challenging enough for me to push me out of my comfort zone, then I get very excited.

Be it films or shows or plays, it’s the content that matters the most.

I really enjoyed working with Ranveer Singh.

I am a little bored of playing negative characters.

When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics’ reviews and box office figures.

Your whole life doesn’t have to be one long, smart monologue.

There is serious Islamophobia in the world.

I am not a major jet-setter; I am a simple man who likes to be on a good beach, have a little swim, and play beach football.

I trekked in the Himalayas, walked up to the Gangotri, and lived in an ashram.

I am really tired of playing characters who don’t care about people.

‘Absolute Water’ converts sewage water into water which can be even consumed – if only one can get rid of the taboo of drinking sewage water, which they do in many parts of the world!

I just do what I get cast in.

In ‘Padmaavat,’ you are pushed to be as good as the frame, to have a presence that lives up to the grand, operatic, intricate, beautiful frame that you inhabit. I love trying to rise to that.

It’s nice to get compliments from both girls and guys.

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

Ideally, for me, the power of appreciation lies in getting better roles and being given more responsibility as an actor.

In ‘Jonaki,’ it isn’t about the individual actor. The actor is as important as the wall, or the water flowing down the wall, or a shadow. That kind of acting is also fascinating to me, not to be invisible necessarily, but to be in perfect synchronicity with the environment.

In ‘Raabta’ I’ve two personalities to project, and yes, there are distinct shades of grey.

Any actor who says that they don’t want the attention, and that they’re tired of all the interviews and photoshoots, are just pretending.

I don’t really understand this negative or positive role thing. A role is a role.

Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.

It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I’ve admired.

An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I acted all through school and college.

‘Flip’ is an anthology of four short films, and I am in the one called ‘Massage,’ along with Sandeepa Dhar and Viraj Patel.