Puri Quotes

#1. He was holding a tray. On the tray were two glasses of milky Indian chai. 'Chota hazari, sahib,' said Ladoo. Bed tea. 'What a nice gesture,' I said returning to Olivia. 'Mrs Puri has sent us up some tea.' 'I wish she had sent it up two hours later,' said Olivia from beneath her sheets.

William Dalrymple

#2. The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among their valleys, in aluminium containers, pools of green and brown and red chutneys.

Rohinton Mistry

#3. During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.

William Dalrymple

#4. When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.

Ravi Teja

#5. I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

Suresh Raina

#6. The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

Om Puri

#7. We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars ... Without stars they cannot work.

Om Puri

#8. When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

Om Puri

#9. All is fine with the world...

Jayendra Puri Goswami

#10. I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

Om Puri

#11. As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

Om Puri

#12. I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

Om Puri

#13. The identity of Hinduism lies in its wide-open structure which allows and let develop diverse and distinct ideologies and practices. With no governing body and no binding scriptures studies in Hinduism are individual exposures and understanding of its spiritual thoughts.

Promod Puri

#14. What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Om Puri

#15. I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

Om Puri

#16. I am happy to play the bad man.

Amrish Puri

#17. I am like a brick.

Amrish Puri

#18. In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

Om Puri

#19. I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

Om Puri

#20. It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Om Puri

#21. I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

Om Puri

#22. Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Om Puri

#23. I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.

Om Puri

#24. I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Om Puri

#25. Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

Om Puri

#26. Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

Om Puri

#27. In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

Om Puri

#28. Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

Om Puri

#29. I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

Om Puri

#30. I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old ... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

Om Puri

#31. I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

Om Puri

#32. Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Om Puri

#33. When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

Om Puri

#34. Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.

Om Puri