Mahesh Babu Quotes

I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

I wish that 'Yama Pasham' will be a bigger hit than 'Krishnagaadi Veera Prema Gaadha.'

When you do a film, you always hope that the film will do well but you don't think beyond that.

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

I want lot of luck and want all my films to be really super hits. I don't want to hear that the film is not good, but you did a good job. I am tired of hearing that. I am hoping for little luck so that my films do really well.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

It's nice to be known for a pretty great movie.

My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

'Badlapur' was my first film that did well, commercially. People have also watched the other films that I have made, but they didn't bring in the footfall.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

I am happy my films have done well in Kerala.

All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.