Words matter. These are the best Jagapathi Babu Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I feel that the industry takes time to recognise local talent. It usually looks for artistes who are difficult to reach and don’t usually approach local artistes who are available.
Usually, I like to play sophisticated-looking characters. I want to do ‘Godfather’-like characters. Given my voice and style, such characters will be apt for me.
Let us be truthful to ourselves and the public.
I believe in friendship over money and that’s how I lost a lot.
Legend’ is a stylised film. The character I play is a complete egoist. He cannot tolerate anyone touching him or slapping him. Whenever anyone antagonises him, he becomes cruel. That’s how the ‘war’ between the hero and him starts. It’s a solid meaty break for me!
A good director will always identify the actor whom he wants to work with.
We need to be our natural selves.
I am going to do films till the end.
I have played a terrorist in ‘Goodachari,’ a feudal lord in ‘Rangasthalam’ and a factionist in ‘AS.’ The variations in all these characters are so different. It’s only because of my directors that this was possible.
Actually, being a hero is not easy. You have to dance around trees, not to mention all the odd and unnatural things you have to do.
When ‘Legend’ came to me, I was down. I thought my career was over.
My plan is to give new ideas to writers. They will come up with new subjects keeping me in mind.
I like change.
We can’t compare ‘JJN’ with ‘Legend,’ but I hope the film will bring me an as much good name.
If every civil servant does his job perfectly, then I am sure the world will be a better place.
It’s Chiranjeevi garu who gave the clap to my first shot. It was a risky shot. After doing it, I told myself that a star was born. Only later did I realize that it was a flop star who was born that day. I had 10-12 flops for the next few years.
Actually, I want to work in all the languages in India, even if there is no money in some of the industries, like Bhojpuri, for instance. I like travelling, I like doing other films, checking out technicians and working with actors in different film industries. This is my plan.
I like to break the rules once in a while.
If an artiste doesn’t turn up on the sets on time, I will lose my cool.
Even though my father was a producer, I had to struggle a lot in the industry. There are many days when I wept.
With my debuts in Tamil and Kannada, I have opened more doors for myself.
It feels nostalgic and emotional to shoot with Ilayathalapathy Vijay as it rekindles some beautiful memories of how his father SA Chandrasekhar and my father VB Rajendra Prasad teamed together to make some good films.
Life is all about learning and growing as we go along.
Different characters help you grow in cinema.
We have four good film industries in the south and language for us is no barrier.
I am a bad businessman who would make a bad producer.
In ‘Chattam,’ the climax was good and that was enough for the film. But the film was not promoted well.
At one point of time, I was jobless, and was too lazy to even trim my beard and dye my hair. I let them grow, without any conscious thought of doing so. That’s when I decided to do a photoshoot, and well, you won’t believe this, it worked big-time for me.
Anybody can be killed by Covid-19.
Nothing wrong in taking more money.
Although I’ve watched most of Spielberg’s films, I haven’t watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.
The Kannada industry is a good place to work in and I have a huge fan following with people over there appreciating me and my films.
Although I and RGV had been friends for years, it was in ‘Gayam’ that he cast me as he believed in me.
I have faith in myself.
In ‘Legend,’ I was burning with ego. In ‘JJN,’ I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.
