Words matter. These are the best Ashish Vidyarthi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s a great joy for me to work on television after a long time.
I personally don’t believe in waiting for things to change.
It’s equally interesting and challenging to work on stage as much as movies.
I was in a school called Shiv Niketan, run by Elizabeth Gauba, where she gave a lot of importance to people expressing themselves in whatever way they wanted – some could draw and answer, some could dance and answer, while some could act.
So many of us have moved to another city, and it’s across strata, economic divides, educational status etc, but we have found ourselves in a new city with its new challenges. So there is something about ‘Dayashankar’ that people connect with.
The exciting part is the journey of an actor. Each destination in my life is something that I celebrate.
Well, acting on stage is very different from acting on screen.
For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.
I’m essentially a traveller. I love to do many things.
It is a rich universe and because people come from different backgrounds, ethos and unique strengths, just because they don’t look like us doesn’t mean you need to amputate them from your life.
An actor has to continuously reinvent himself. So my plea to all directors and scriptwriters is please look at me out of the box.
We make life difficult, and then we try to solve it. My methodology is to simplify things and share them with life examples.
I am available as an actor across languages.
If you love your work, you will try out different kinds of roles with perseverance in order to sustain in the industry.
I was a ‘bathroom actor’ and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.
I have done 200 plus films in other languages.
Roshan Sherchan is a grey character and that’s the challenge. He’s not all bad. Even though people will hate him, they’ll still wonder why he did what he did. I enjoyed playing this character a lot because he will make the audience choose between things.
No actor is totally happy with the roles they get.
Either I am rootless or I have my roots spread out so much that I cannot spot my primary root. I believe in Camus’ philosophy – It is important to be a traveller without a baggage.
Actors too need directors who can fire their imagination. The fire needs to be stoked.
My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.
All the actors go through ups and downs in their careers and in their lives.
Try to be creative in everything you do, then only you will get recognized by the society.
It has been more than 31 years for me in the cinema industry but I am still learning and my motto is the same as that of late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
I am tired of getting typecast.
I have plenty of memories from my stint in the Kannada film industry.
For me acting is just a profession. As much passion I have for my profession, I always seperate profession from life.
My Marathi is indeed very bad and whenever I try to call my friends Sandeep Kulkarni or Sayaji Shinde, they immediately recognise my weird accent and all my efforts to surprise them go down the drain.
It’s a funny thing that when things happen in an actor’s life, at some point it’s just a performance, at another, it’s a part of your life.
Once I sign a film, irrespective of whether it is a small production or a large one, I make it mine and give my best.
I did a film called ‘Nightfall,’ based on Isaac Asimov life, which was directed by an American director. However it was a short film.
I never like to call myself as a celebrity. I am an actor and that’s the only title I am proud to own.
All of us play different roles in our chosen career. I play the role of an actor. But I realised I am also an actor apart from various roles I play in my personal life.
Even as we continue our life, what is important is that, we must keep hope for the future alive.
When people ask me where I am from, with artificial simplicity, they don’t understand how convoluted an answer it may sound.