Words matter. These are the best Kangana Ranaut Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
I don’t know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don’t want to inject Botox and look young forever. It’s living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.
I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Hits and flops are overrated.
From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It’s not that I don’t want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.
I think the rejection – if it’s taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I’ve always striven for. If one thing didn’t work out, a project or anything, it doesn’t mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.
I write poems, I meditate. I don’t live up to people’s expectations. I don’t do the conventional cool things – I know I am the coolest person.
A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don’t think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do ‘agni pariksha’ and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It’s very regressive.
I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
I don’t think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It’s a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.
When I was born, my parents – my mother especially – couldn’t come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn’t work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
I don’t feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.
I’m my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn’t give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
The thing about Bollywood is that you can’t just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
Money can’t buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn’t happen with me.
I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options for students of science though, so I shifted to Delhi and decided to try theater instead.
It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things… They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
Tone matters more than words.
This man who was my father’s age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
I really don’t want to be known as a fashionista. I’d like to be someone more than that.
The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
It’s very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I’m not made that way.
I don’t really give into all that philosophical talks that ‘money is not everything.’
Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
They will always assume that this guy – an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then… so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn’t speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they’re not very forgiving. ‘If you don’t speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?’
I started from B-grade films, and today I’m the number one actress of this country… whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched… they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
I had no work after ‘Gangster’ for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I’d be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren’t too supportive of my career choices.
There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
I am not ashamed of anything – not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don’t take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year… I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step… we are headed to that direction.
All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
I think there are things that you look for when you’re younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That’s not going to happen, and it’s really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you’re at ease with your life and don’t have any unrealistic expectations.
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