Top 35 Ranbir Kapoor Quotes

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

‘Bombay Velvet’ is my most romantic film, it’s my ‘Titanic’ or ‘Gone With The Wind.’

I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

I think I’ve found a purpose in acting; it’s something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I’m living beyond the camera.

I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I’m sleeping.

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don’t have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

I’m actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.

I don’t think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it’s so large next to me. It’s not stopping. It’s ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can’t fix a time for it. Please don’t predict it for me.

I don’t think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

Movies are a director’s medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn’t do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

I’m very heterosexual, so dating women is something I’m not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I have never been vain. I don’t take myself seriously. I don’t consider myself sexy or good-looking.

I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

I watch ‘Entourage.’ I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

I don’t have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.

I’m not being really intelligent in my film choices; I’m just landing the opportunity when it comes.

Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it’s really hard for them because they don’t understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a ‘reel’ life and a real life.

I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it’s my job. I am here to act.

I am arrogant enough to know that I am a good actor and people will like me for my work.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don’t have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don’t make movies to impress our friends and critics. It’s an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, ‘At least this is something for which I won’t have to study.’ But I’ve realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he’s doing and about what’s going on around him. The moment you think you’ve nailed it, you’re dead.

I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn’t do that for my films because that’s something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, ‘Don’t write about this.’ I am an actor; I am a public property. I don’t own myself; public owns me.