Top 66 Pratik Gandhi Quotes

In 1992, I was in school. I did hear about Harshad Mehta and one of my cousins lost some money in the stock market, but I knew little about it.

Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.

I have always felt a special bond with Ganpati Bappa.

I find the world of podcasts very interesting because it truly puts the audience’s visualisation into action. Each and every person listening to it can create their own stories in their minds, with the help of the voice they are listening to.

Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I’ve seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow.

I was grounded in the performing arts from a very young age.

When I was trying to balance my corporate career and theatre, my dad asked me to quit my job and concentrate on my acting career. But I was hesitant because I was equally passionate about both.

In fact, I feel that cinema has no language.

I feel no one is interested in you unless you create your own success.

I had heard a lot of key words about Harshad Mehta in books, documentaries, on the Internet, and in the script like his passion, greed, a bit of ego, and confidence.

Each film needs a lot of struggles and a lot of hard work from so many people.

There can’t be competition between actors.

Humour plays a vital part in any ‘Bhavai’ performance and is seen in plays.

It won’t be wrong if I say that I’ve grown up in the theatre and it has grown in me.

I’m open to exploring different regional cinema also because each language has a different performance drama.

I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, we are humans and I am here in the entertainment industry for experiments, to create new characters and to tell stories, that’s it. I don’t think much about success. It will keep changing with every project.

I instantly connect to certain characters and scripts.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion. So that’s a rare combination – being a good craftsman and a good human being.

I am looking at consistency in my choices now and creating repeat value as far as my work is concerned.

When things don’t work out, it actually excites me even more. I always believe that something better will happen and that’s why things are not working out right now. That’s been my attitude towards everything that I do.

I would happily do any Malayalam or Bengali film, if the script is good and I get a good challenge as an actor.

I have grown as an actor in all these years by doing multiple projects.

The monologue is one of the most difficult and interesting forms of theatre for an actor to learn.

I had to turn down films and plays because I had a job, and I could not take up better job offers that required me to relocate, because I did not want to lose the link with theatre. It was a huge decision for me to quit my job.

When we were making ‘Scam 92,’ we knew that it was something unique.

Theatre is where I come from and I don’t want to leave it for sure.

From the very beginning when I took a plunge into acting, I was prepared mentally that I am not going to be in a rush, rather I would choose to be a slow and steady player in this industry.

When I dub for my films, I have my scenes already in place and I just have to work on my voice and deliver the same emotions. I have to recreate those emotions.

I don’t remember a time or an incident where I decided to be an actor because it was always a part of me and it had almost become second nature to me.

For an actor, nothing can be more blissful than a packed date diary!

I never thought of quitting acting or the stage.

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

I have always been intuitive as far as work is concerned and would continue to select projects based on my gut feel.

What is right and what is wrong keeps changing according to time.

Gujarati movies and theatre will never take a backseat for me. In fact, I want to do Marathi films too.

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know what I’m going to do.

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

Initially, when ‘Scam’ was released and it instantly became huge, I did feel the pressure. Everyone kept telling me that my next move will decide my career, that I had to choose wisely and be double sure of what I do next. But when I thought about it, I realised there’s no formula to this.

I come from a teaching family so, we never had anything to do with the financial world.

I was told that I am not lead material.

Scam’ gave me a national or I would say global platform which made me a household name. I am getting such a lot of love, appreciation, and acceptance from the audience and makers and that’s a very satisfying feeling.

Mohan No Masalo’ is a play very dear to me.

I’m an engineer.

Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.

Once you watch any character for nine-and-half hours, be it good, bad or grey, you tend to attach yourself with it. You always feel for the character, even if he is a villain.

I used to wake up in the morning, rehearse for two hours, leave for office, travel an hour-and-a-half, then go for shows in the evening.

Well, honestly speaking, I know what to say ‘No’ to.

You need a lot of intra-personal relation skills if you’re an actor.

No one in my family is an entrepreneur.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

I don’t succumb to the pressure of expectations. I try to convert it into excitement.

Year 2020 was special. After everything that we went through, including the fact that my family battled COVID19, I believe that we are a tiny part of this large universe. Every second we spend here is precious, and so we must live in the moment and enjoy it. We should stop thinking we’re too important.

Storytelling was always a passion for me.

In 2004, I shifted to Mumbai and started working in theatre, along with working for corporates for 15 years. That helped me a lot in creating a different character for multiple shows.

Lot of people have indeed compared my looks to that of a few Southern actors.

I went to a school where theatre was a compulsory subject.

Right and wrong are both very subjective, it’s all grey.

There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife’s brain tumour operation, my father’s cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.

Everytime I read a script now, I am able to imagine my character in multiple ways, which I present to the director or the writer, and we take it on from there.

It’s very easy to colour the thoughts of people in the age of social media. If you are being bombarded with some lies constantly, you tend to believe it’s true.

I am open to working in all southern language – Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

The dilemma of refusing a role is faced by every actor at certain points in his/her life.

In 2012, I got my first Gujarati film. After that, a lot of things changed for me and for the Gujarati film industry. I did my early films by taking leave from my engineering job.

Sanjeev Kumar is one actor whose performances have inspired me. The way he looked and the way he performed are two different things. That gives me a lot of confidence that look and all do not always matter.