VICKY KAUSHAL

I will keep working hard in future as well so that audience will keep showering their love upon me.

I just want to grow as an actor and work with good directors.

I am a tikka lover.

As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.

As a kid, I grew up watching movies in the cinema, so that dream and charm will never die.

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

I feel there's a halo around me, a constant sunshine wherever I go.

When you get an opportunity to work in good films like 'Raazi,' it boosts your confidence to know that good filmmakers are willing to work with you.

Acting between action and cut is temporary. The result is permanent.

The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

My dad battled various financial mishaps for years before achieving success as a stunt director, but my parents ensured that my brother and I knew all about the family's struggle. We knew from where each piece of furniture came from.

When you take this journey of becoming an actor, there are only destinations - one, where people give you that limelight and expect the world from you, and two, they don't know who you are, and they don't care what you are doing. You have to choose where you want to go.

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

For me, the story must be the hero of the film. The screen space or the length of my role does not matter.

I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.

Life without paani puri isn't life.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

Whenever a relationship doesn't go on the right path, it affects me in some form, but it hasn't spoilt anything for me.

I have seen my dad working with utmost sincerity and integrity, the sacrifices he made. I have also seen the rewards: if you give your best, you get your worth.

When you get to work with a good director, an actor's job gets reduced to half.

I think all my films have a different journey. Therefore, I take it as it comes.