Top 55 Deepti Naval Quotes

This kind of devotion doesn’t exist anymore, that you would spend half your life in love with somebody and you never even see that person. One or two meetings is enough.

Women no longer look at relationships conventionally, and neither should films.

I have always been fond of painting landscapes.

I became extremely choosy about films.

I have lived alone, by myself, for many years, so I feel I am my best company.

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

The idea is not to reinvent myself by venturing into different media because my film career has come to a standstill, but I have the urge to interpret life through different media.

Personally, I’ve always felt that I’ve enjoyed my work. But there have been times where I’ve have waited for interesting work to come my way.

I had reached a dead end and that is when I took to trekking which took me to faraway places like Ladakh.

I love writing. It is the closest thing to me after being an actor.

I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as possible.

I used to walk miles to make a single phone call. Look how things have changed today.

I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on camera and painful moments off camera.

I am an artiste and truly a free spirit.

Turning to direction is an inevitable branching-out.

I don’t listen to people who don’t matter to me.

It’s exciting to step into the shoes of someone you have known and admired.

Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest filmmakers of India; I had seen his films ‘Raincoat’ and ‘Chokher Bali’ and I had always admired his body of work.

Being recognized for your body of work in totality is some sort of an encouragement that everyone looks for. To have actually achieved it, feels amazing.

Earlier, when actors aged, they were never, ever to be seen again; but times have changed for the better. Now you don’t have to go into oblivion just because you’ve crossed 40.

OTT platforms have opened up a whole new area to explore in terms of content, writing, acting, everything. But I’m not really very comfortable with the four-letter cuss words in all languages, which are now used liberally; I’m a bit old school.

I feel envious of people who have been connected to music throughout their lives.

I am not a trained actor, and for me, getting under the skin of a character, living their lives, is important, or the audience will catch my lie.

In my career, I have made the right choices, but somehow, as an actress, I wish I had done more films.

My family has always appreciated and supported me for my choices.

I am fearlessly independent. I have the courage to go against the tide and pay a price for my choices.

I feel that somewhere actors are vulnerable, that they need to be protected and this is why we find ourselves living life much less than more.

‘Heartless’ is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role.

I love the solitude of the mountains. I write, take pictures and get inspired by the colors of nature.

I was writing in English since my school days in Amritsar.

Television does not fascinate me.

Farooque Shaikh was not sick at all. In fact, when we were working together during ‘Listen… Amaya,’ I was sick but he was totally fit and very energetic and enthusiastic. Nobody had slightest hint that such a calamity can happen to him. His death was such a shattering news, first thing in the morning.

Personally, my favorite Farooq Sheikh performances are ‘Bazaar’ and ‘Garm Hava.’

As an artist, the work that I have done in my career has always and will always make me happy.

Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

I have written much more than I have had published.

You can’t be in the industry without your share of heartbreaks, disappointments, and frustrations also. But as long as you’re able to stick to your guts and pick the roles you really want to do, the whole journey becomes worthwhile.

I wasn’t trained as an actor at all. I had studied painting in America and had no clue about acting when I came back.

I’ve had a weakness for Bengali directors, be it Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen, or Goutam Ghose, because of their sensitivity towards cinema.

Every decade there’s a new trend of films. Something else is more liked by the audience, something else is more popular.

My career has been very spaced out.

When people reach out to me and say they relate to me through my characters, that’s also a reward of a kind.

Choosing death is no solution, romancing life is a choice.

I can never turn my back on acting.

I think it’s in a way my tragedy that people don’t see me for the serious roles I have played.

I like to read people’s gestures and implement them into my acting.

On a flight, I saw the ‘Chashme Buddoor’ remake. It did nothing to me. It had no impact. Watching the remake, I missed the original team even more.

I have travelled along the entire Tibetan stretch.

I have been selective from the very beginning. And I did get to work with some big names like Basu Chatterjee and Shyam Benegal, among others.

Because I had other means of expressions, I was lucky that I didn’t go under and start becoming all convoluted in my head. That can happen, if you’re a serious actor and you’re here to really be a part of cinema, and when cinema ignores you, it can be devastating.

I love old Hindi songs, black and white films.

I give a lot of credit to my wanderings. Because it just opens up your mind to life itself.

I love the kind of films Sanjay Leela Bhansali makes.

Directing the television serial, ‘Thoda Sa Aasman,’ was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.

I put my thoughts through my work – be it painting, or simply writing.