Top 40 Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

My mother is very fond of cooking and whenever I am home she ensures that I eat the best food prepared by her, because of which I gain a lot of weight.

The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given by God.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

People in the South are very organised and are thorough professionals besides being good paymasters. They are very disciplined and start and wrap up work on time.

The first thing that strikes a person when it comes to Southern film industries is the hard work, professionalism and the punctuality that people religiously adhere to.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it’s a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

Srideviji is a powerhouse performer. She has been my favourite actor since my college days and to share screen space with her is a dream come true for me.

There is no such thing as playing someone else’s character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

Acting gives you freedom to express your thoughts.

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

I have done a lot of television serials in order to make ends meet.

As for Bollywood, actors are no longer typecast there and I’m happy to be in that phase where the industry is evolving for the better.

Getting back into shape is always a difficult task for me.

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

A run-of-the-mill bad guy role does not satisfy me creatively.

In ‘Rakht Charitra,’ I had equal screen space to that of the lead.

I’d have gone berserk if I hadn’t met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.

I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.

Karthi is such a wonderful human being. He is always focused towards improvisations and keeps working on it.

I decided to do theatre intensely. I joined Makarand Deshpande’s group Ansh. He became my guru. That’s where I met Anurag Kashyap and Kay Kay Menon. These were the people who supported and inspired me.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn’t much.

Gulaal’ gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Luckily, ‘Rakta Charitra’ did well in the South and I started getting a lot offers from the Tamil and Telegu film industry.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

More than anything else it pleases me to know I’ve made people back home in Bihar proud of me.

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

Acting in different languages doesn’t stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

As a boy from Patna, I’ve always dreamt of a chance to showcase my talent.

It is a big deal to play the antagonist in a Rohit Shetty film.

I guess some characters always remain the same, and Macbeth is one of them.

People in the South want heroes to be their own, whereas it is easier for them to accept a villain who hails from another state.

I’m very much a family person.

10 Endradhukulla’ is a thriller and the characters are all on the run. The film travels from South India traversing through the North, to the mountains where the climax takes place. Mine is a different kind of character; he is very suave and stylish and only later it is discovered that he is not what he looks like.

That’s my only plan: to keep doing good roles and win appreciation.

When you work with Vikram, you give your best. It brought out the best in me.

I’m not the type who will go and ask people for roles.