Top 66 Huma Qureshi Quotes

I started getting a lot of work once I came to Mumbai. I was working with some of the biggest ad filmmakers. But I had to give auditions.

I agree that I am different from others. I am not trying to fit in someone else’s shoes. I am being honest to myself.

I’d love to do a potboiler.

Work needs to be exciting enough to take someone as lazy as me out of my home.

One thing we need to learn from the West is how professional they are about their work. A 7:30 A.M. call time means just that. That’s something we need to imbibe from them. And people in the West need to learn from us how we work with our stories.

I believe in equal pay for equal work. Gender, race, skin colour, or ethnicity should not be the parameters to hire someone or to decide how much they should be paid.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

As a woman, absolutely, I have had to deal with people making advances at me, but not just people from the business of film industry but people across different professions and different strata. I think it has a lot to do with power; it is not only limited to the film business.

In ‘Badlapur,’ my character’s name is Jhumli. It’s a special film for me because I got a chance to work with my favourite director, Sriram Raghavan. I’m a huge fan of him.

I don’t want to be the glam doll; that doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Beauty has no set standard. It is honestly in diversity.

Indian actors are afraid to go and work abroad because people are very professional over there. In India, we have become very lazy. Everything happens slowly, and as per God’s will. A 9 A.M. call time means we start working at whatever time we wish.

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to ‘Badlapur,’ and I didn’t want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

I remember, during an ad shoot, Anurag said to me that you are doing my film, and I was wondering do we really get films so easily. I thought you have to struggle and all. But he kept his word and offered me ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur.’

I don’t think one should be a slave to one medium.

Oh yes, my best birthday gift was when my dad gifted me my first car in college. It was a Maruti Swift. I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It was so much fun, as I could completely show it off to my friends that I have my own car now and not my dad’s car.

In school, I was always a fat girl. No matter how thin you are, but girls always have this thing in mind that I am a little fat.

The girls have to be equal to boys.

My parents gave me a strong sense of entitlement. And I use that in a very good way.

I want my fan base to increase.

Every girl brought up in the ’90s would idolise Madhuri and would want to work with her. I’m just happy that I’ve been able to achieve that.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.

All this is expected from girls only – wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don’t always have to do their hair and makeup.

Fashion bloggers will do their work; it’s their job. So let them do it. I am not doing something to make them happy or to get friendly with them so that they write good stuff about me.

I wouldn’t say that I haven’t got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

I don’t have any ego, and I will go and audition for parts if I’m offered an interesting script.

I believe in content. Just looking pretty next to the hero gives me no joy. I believe I have more to offer than that.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

What I miss most about Lucknow is its chaat.

I am a product of ’90s movies. I grew up watching ’90s films and wanted to become an actor because that was the phase of cinema I enjoyed.

I have always said that Twitter is my forum to talk to people about what’s happening in my life.

There are a lot of people out there who are just bullies. They constantly keep telling you that you are too fat, too thin, your teeth are not fine, you can’t speak English really well, and you are too short, etc.

No one likes it when their personal life is talked about, and I am no exception. But I guess it’s the price an actor has to pay for being in the public eye.

I would rather talk about films that I did than the films that I didn’t do.

When I am doing a role, I don’t think that I am getting to wear a mini skirt or show my stomach. I am doing a role because I am an actor.

I am not in a hurry to be number one. I don’t want to be in the rat race in that sense.

I love dressing up for the red carpet.

For me, it’s about the impact that the role has in the film overall. Less or more screen time, whether I get to romance the hero, is not the yardstick I go by. If my part is strong enough, then why not?

I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.

As a member of the audience, when you see someone from your country working in an international project, your curiosity about that film increases manifold.

I want to be inspired when I’m working, and for that, I can go wherever it takes me.

My father runs a restaurant business in Delhi, so if I had chosen to sell kebabs, it would be far easier for me than for anybody else.

Whether my film becomes commercially successful or not, only God can tell, or the box-office numbers. So why worry about it and get distracted?

My idea of being fit is feeling good about leading a healthy and disciplined lifestyle.

I am bored of the ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ image.

I have always been cool and open about my body.

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, ‘She is only good at this.’

The very fact that I got to work with Akshay Kumar was special.

I just cannot do a boring film. It has to be interesting with a good character.

As an actor, I don’t have an agenda. I don’t have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.

Anybody who says that favoritism doesn’t exist in Bollywood would be lying.

It’s not at all easy to make people laugh. Kudos to those who can do it so well.

If a woman is saying something out loud, she is asking for help, and you have no business to character assassinating her. You have to reach out to her and help her and protect her, and I think we need to protect our women, and we need to protect our children.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn’t exist.

The world is fixated on defining and redefining what is feminine. That is for every individual to decide for herself.

I just love watching ‘Andaz Apna Apna.’ Every single time, I end up laughing so much that my jaws start hurting.

Not all are starting from the same line; however, the finishing line is certainly the same. We all have to show how much money our films make or how many awards we win or what critical acclaim and commercial success our films have.

The audience is loving me the way I am, and that’s most important.

You must be happy in every moment – it might touch other people’s hearts and make them smile.

I’ve been a huge fan of Kate Winslet, and have watched all her films. She is such a solid actor and I look up to her.

As an actor, I would love to do an out and out comedy.

Whether it was ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur’ or whether it’s ‘LSTCK,’ the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

Everybody has to go through a struggle period, and I was no different. When I came to Mumbai from Delhi, I didn’t know anybody, and all my relationships had to be built up from scratch, including my work relationships.

It is a challenge to work away from India and with a cast and crew from all over the world. But it’s also very gratifying, and you learn so much by just being with them.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.