Top 44 Rajpal Yadav Quotes

I don’t need to use bad language as a means of earning or for entertainment.

If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.

I love comedy but I am Rajpal Yadav. I am not a comedian.

Where I come from in U.P., there is a whole settlement of Punjabis who converted sandy, barren lands into green fields swaying with agricultural produce. So, I have always had great respect for the Punjabi community.

I have two mothers – Maa and cinema, so I am grateful to Bollywood for giving me a lot.

I always had this concept of mobile theatre, to promote the learning of acting.

I have been wanting to add an ‘a’ in my name for a long time. Finally, I managed to do that.

I don’t know how to pray and don’t believe in any superstitions, but my belief in myself is very strong.

In 1997, I was an unknown struggler; In 2018, I am a well-known beginner.

Dara Singhji’s voice and personality can’t be duplicated. He was one of his kind.

I don’t want to carry the burden of the past with me.

I never shoot for a film telling myself that I have to make people laugh. I can’t even do stand-up comedy.

My wife is 5 ft 5, but I’m happy with whatever God has given me.

I have been following Charlie Chaplin since my childhood days. He is an inspiration to everyone.

My elder brother wants to build a girls’ college in Shahjanpur in U.P. We don’t have good education system and the security for girls in school and colleges in our village is dismal. So I am going to fully support my brother in whatever he is doing.

When I visit my village, relatives or even when I am at a film shoot, I try to observe my surroundings and understand the environment.

I like interacting with people.

Even though I’ve acted in many films, I have directed for the first time, and I will always consider myself a student.

In India, big stars like Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan do comedy and serious films and we call them great actors. But when it comes to actors of my stature, people rush to typecast me as a comedian without giving a look to all my work.

I respect my constitution and country a lot.

I don’t suffer from an inferiority complex because of my looks.

Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what we want from script writers.

When I had entered Bollywood, I had decided that in the first decade of my career, I will do what others ask me to do, and in the next decade, I will do what I want.

I get bored easily.

If I have to choose one person, the one person who inspired Rajpal Yadav is Raj Kapoor saab.

Besides acting, I had learnt a lot about entertainment at the Bhartendu Natya Academy, Lucknow and the National School of Drama, Delhi, which I had not been able to put to use. That inspired me to take up direction.

I loved every minute of the scripting, writing and developing of ‘APL.’

My wife’s half-Indian, her father’s from Uganda and she was born in Canada. Her sister speaks French and their family speaks a little Gujarati, and I’m talking about Gujarati from 1940! And just think – Rajpal Yadav in the middle of all this. What a contrast!

If people wish to meet you or speak with you, you can say you are still relevant.

Body shaming comes from prejudice and it does not hold any importance in my life. All that matters is my hard work, my mission and my vision; now that shouldn’t be short!

I used to interact with the fellow prisoners during recreation activity; I used to conduct an interactive session that we named ‘Rajpal Ki Paathshala.’

When women are more educated, the nation progresses.

If becoming a big star means doing a film that I can’t watch with my daughter, I don’t want to become that star.

I got a break in 1999 in Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Jungle.’ I won awards for ‘Jungle.’

I thank the audience of this country who have showered me with love and like to watch me.

I have always hoped and prayed that everyone grows in their lives, but I still want to be the smallest person. I am scared to become big. It fills you with unnecessary things such as ego, jealousy, etc.

I feel comedy is one of the strongest emotions that an actor portrays and the most powerful one too.

‘Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain’ is a film seen through my eyes. I play a labourer.

Some people don’t have hands, some don’t have eyes – these people’s struggle in life is real. We have been blessed with everything – a pair of eyes, ears, hands. What do we have to worry about? About having one more foot added to our height? Just because I am not six feet, won’t I be respected?

It’s true that I have never done something like ‘Yaar Dhokebaaz, Pyaar Dhokebaaz.’ I colored my hair golden-brown. I am bare-chested in the song and have my own style of dancing. I thoroughly enjoyed what I was doing.

I have a problem being called a comedian. An actor must never be typecast in one way or the other.

‘Padosan’ is a three-dimensional film. The chemistry between Saira Banu, Sunil Dutt and Mehmood is too good.

Until we got married, Radha didn’t utter a word of English and now she won’t speak Hindi. Her Hindi’s pretty good actually – she learnt it while watching Hindi movies.

When I decided to direct a film, I went through around 200 to 300 scripts. Out of which, 12 subjects were finalized and ‘Aata Pata Laapta’ emerged as the winner.