Irrfan Khan quotes:

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

Language does not make one an elite.

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.