Top 75 Arjun Kapoor Quotes

From the age of 14, I wanted to be a director.

I signed ‘Aurangzeb’ because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.

My mother was the nicest person in the world. I still have people coming to me to say how she was so warm, generous, and kind-hearted. She never washed her dirty linen in public. She always maintained her equations with people.

I think everybody can get along.

I didn’t even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

Sadly, Indians are not very easily accepted in Pakistan, and that has a lot to do with the governments.

I have never restricted myself to my strengths and abilities, as they are unlimited, and I am still discovering them.

I am someone who doesn’t talk more than what is required, but I am also a fun person.

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

I wanted to tell my story because I believe that if I can inspire or motivate even 10 or 15 people to start losing weight, it’s a very big achievement. If I’ve managed to do it, anybody can.

Success demands sacrifices. I believe it’s a small price to pay for the adulation and love one receives.

I want all my films to do well.

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not feel as ambitious as her, he can be a homemaker also. There is nothing wrong with it.

I internalise things. My sorrows and joys are private.

I aspire to play interesting characters.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

There is pathos and drama in ‘Half Girlfriend.’

Your success can’t be determined by your surname but only by your work.

I don’t know how I got such an image, but I am not a Casanova. It’s an image that I wouldn’t have liked for myself.

I don’t have many friends, but I want to retain the ones I have.

‘Ki And Ka’ in a very sweet way says that if you have talent, then gender doesn’t matter.

Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with – physical, emotional, and mental.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody’s life regardless of what profession you’re in.

An actor is defined by the choices he or she makes.

People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It’s illogical. People say what they have to say.

I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad’s company. I only did two of his films.

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

I work very hard in the gym. Sometimes, I come home very late, around 1 A.M., but still I go and work out at the gym. I don’t ever stop.

Hollywood has cracked emotions very well with animation, and that is where India will eventually cover because it is an emotional country, and we just want a right story to tell, which will stir the right emotions with the audience.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

In the beginning, I got different kind of roles, and then I realised it’s great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film.

Every morning when I wake up, I am grateful and happy that I come to the film set. It is home.

I can’t put on a facade every time I go out.

I feel that if you are not comfortable, you can’t be stylish, and that is the rule I follow.

There are some people who cannot watch every film because of age. They might watch only three films in a year.

It’s silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn’t just look nice; she must have a personality, too.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

My father is a genuinely nice guy and very generous to anybody and everybody. He likes to live life kingsize, and he doesn’t know any other way, and I love that about him.

I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you’ll understand them better.

My heritage is Pakistani, and I have loads of Pakistani fans on social media who I would love to connect with.

It has been an amazing experience working on ‘Half Girlfriend.’

‘Gunday’ might not be the best film of my life, but it’s been a life-altering film for me.

Filmmaking as a process, it’s bittersweet.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

When ‘Ishaqzaade’ released, I was going through hell. It didn’t matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

The flop that hit me was ‘Tevar.’ It felt like someone knocked the wind out of me. When you do a home production, it always hurts more. I wasn’t ready to accept that ‘Tevar’ didn’t do well.

I am hungry for good work.

With ‘Aurangzeb,’ I just knew that the film wasn’t going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That’s because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn’t really learn how to fight.

Women who want to work should be given the choice to do that. If you decide to work even after getting married, then men should allow that to happen.

Who would say no to a film like ‘Gunday?’

I’d like to do a hundred different films.

My personal style statement is very casual. And for me, comfort tops the chart over anything else.

When you come from within the industry, you are better prepared for the industry. For example, you see your family deal with the nonsense that is written in the papers, or the highs and lows of a hit and a flop.

There is nothing wrong being a house husband, and I do believe there is something right about it.

When you aren’t doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

I am intrigued by women I have conversations with.

I won’t think about what people will say, even when I am actually seeing someone. Somebody will say something, then someone else will contradict it. I can’t keep chasing all of them and try and correct everyone.

For an actor to create a different look for every film is not easy.

I have made my mistakes my strengths instead of looking at whose fault it is.

I try and work out at least six times a week with my trainer because that’s important for my body type, which is so different from a typical Indian boy.

I’ve never been in a fight, not even while in college.

I understand that people talk, and frankly, I can’t control that. There’s no point in getting upset over a thing that you can’t control. You just have to let it go.

I love leather jackets, and I am obsessed with it. I carry leather jackets fairly well.

My first film, ‘Ishaqzaade,’ did well, and I got four damn good films because of it.

An actor should never be influenced by the surroundings, because you have to submit completely, and trust me, it’s not a good feeling when you know that your father is going to come and watch you work every day!

In a population of over one billion, there are 12-15 names that have the potential to be main leads in Hindi films. I am within the minority of the minority.

I am so broad and big-structured that even two kilos on me can look like gaining 10 kilos, and losing two kilos can also look like shedding 10 kilos.

I’m happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn’t know it until I got up there.

My ambition is very cinema-driven.

My granddad passed away a month before I started shooting for ‘Ishaqzaade,’ and my mom died just before the film’s release, both within a year of each other.

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.