Author Profile
Pankaj Kapur
1954 • Indian • Actor
60
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Showing 60 quotesI did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.— Pankaj Kapur
There have been actors who have been extremely successful by doing just about everything that came their way. But I do what I like doing and give it a certain time.— Pankaj Kapur
I feel you need to treat children as equals instead of giving them a complex - you are young, you are small, you don't know.'— Pankaj Kapur
I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.— Pankaj Kapur
When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.— Pankaj Kapur
The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.— Pankaj Kapur
We've not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.— Pankaj Kapur
As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.— Pankaj Kapur
Women do have better roles to play, more characters are being written. For instance, Surpriya Pathak's character in 'Ram Leela' or Neena Gupta's part in 'Badhaai Ho'.'— Pankaj Kapur
I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.— Pankaj Kapur
Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to go in stages so I could explore myself as an actor and in the process I started writing scripts.— Pankaj Kapur
I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.— Pankaj Kapur