Top 44 Wamiqa Gabbi Quotes

I don’t discern between OTT and theatre because this is incredible work that I ‘chose’ to do.

It may seem that I am doing films in different languages, which of course I am, but more importantly, I am performing different characters and every character has so much to teach. It makes me happy that I am associated with so many film industries.

I think down South, the film industry has the most hardworking, passionate filmmakers.

I want to do good films, with good content. I am not selecting projects based on language.

All I knew about Malayalam cinema prior to ‘Godha’ was that it is an industry that celebrates content and has an audience that appreciates it.

I have acted in Tamil and Telugu, languages that were alien to me. It was then that I got the call to Malayalam.

As a Punjabi, I feel we need to buckle up with more discipline.

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

It may sound very cliched but seriously, since childhood I always wanted to be an actress.

I’d be doing all sorts of odd jobs and traveling the world. Let alone if I wasn’t an actress, even now if my films stop doing well and people stop liking me, I’d go do odd jobs, like a waitress or something like that and save just about enough to see the world.

The Punjabi film industry is fairly new and needs all the support it can get.

The writer in my dad is someone whom I’ve been inspired greatly by since my childhood.

I am just so glad to be a part of the industry right now, where everyone from across the country want to collaborate with each other and tell really beautiful stories.

I trained in wrestling under master Ashok Kumar from Amritsar for one and a half months.

I have a Punjabi film ‘Nikha Zaildar 2,’ directed by Simerjeet Singh. It is a 1970s drama set in old Punjab. There are two heroines. I play Sawan a teacher.

In ‘Bhale Manchi Roju’ I had to wear a sari and dance, with make up and styling as a bride.

I have no filmi background.

It is different because ‘Grahan’ was promoted Pan India and audience from all over the country watched it. It was obviously a very different feeling and a different kind of success.

I was born and brought up in Chandigarh.

I didn’t even tell any of my girlfriends that I was doing a film with Prithviraj because they would have wanted to come and see him… Imagine a bunch of Punjabi girls with an unsuspecting South Indian boy.

Punjabi is a growing industry and we need to be more professionally aligned with other industries.

There is no particular character that I wish to portray. I just want to push myself to do justice to whichever role I am offered.

You can’t discuss everything with a male director.

Even in college, guys didn’t look at me.

I don’t want to be the one dancing behind the trees and getting my stomach pinched.

If you don’t know something completely, you tend to have a misconception.

Obviously… I feel it is important for women as well as men. Learning any kind of martial arts will help them when faced with atrocities. There are many incidents where men are also attacked.

Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym.

I never thought I was beautiful.

In fact, my dad has a significant role to play in shaping my opinions and value system.

Every night, I sit with an assistant director and learn my dialogues.

In ‘Godha,’ I was a Punjabi girl and had Hindi, English and Punjabi dialogues.

At the end of the day, I will always be proud of what I have done.

Being a non-athletic person, I had to strengthen my core, arm and leg muscles before learning the wrestling moves.

I acted in a Punjabi serial ‘Saude Dillan De’ when I was eight years old and after that I was among the top five participants in a dance show judged by Aamir Khan.

While training is important to fine-tune one’s skill set, in my case, the exhaustive theatre experience and the grind of rehearsals ensured an easy transition into different roles.

When I realized I can actually lift and drop someone, I was convinced I have become stronger.

Stage phobia never touched me. I was naturally drawn towards the spotlight.

It is very satisfying to see people praising you and your character, and the journey of the character moved them. It gives you a lot of confidence as an actor.

These days, I ask anyone I meet if I can do a wrestling move on them.

My sense of cinema improved slowly as I started watching South cinema, got to know that cinema is much appreciated here.

As an actress, I am eager to explore different characters.

After ‘Ishq Brandy,’ I was either not getting good scripts or not good characters.

Whenever there used to be any audition in Chandigarh I would go for it.