Quotes About Om Puri

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

Om Puri

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Love knows no color." - Amy McCoy Dees

Amy McCoy Dees

#5. I don't own you, you just belong to me.

Pushpa Rana

#6. Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

Clayton M Christensen

#7. 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

#8. Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

William Godwin

#9. I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

J.K. Rowling

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

Om Puri

#11. 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

#12. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Anne Rice

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

Om Puri

#14. Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work ... Fire is a chemical presence.

Ben Okri

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

Om Puri

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Dreams change all the time, but fantasy changes all the future.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#19. 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

#20. She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.

Rob Thomas

#22. Scripture and tradition habitually put the joys of heaven into the scale against the sufferings of earth,

C.S. Lewis

#23. The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Thomas Aquinas

#24. 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

#25. Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Om Puri

#26. With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Viggo Mortensen

#27. 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

#28. The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

Penny Jordan

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

Om Puri

#30. 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

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

Om Puri

#32. 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

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

Om Puri

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

Karl Jaspers

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

Om Puri

#38. 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

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

Om Puri

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

Om Puri