Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

When I look for people to work with, I'm just looking for talented people.

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, 'Oh, she's nice,' rather than, 'Oh, she's so pretty.'

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

Janhvi is a very sincere actress. She respects me a lot, and I, too, respect her for the sincerity and commitment towards her work.

I appreciate the level of professionalism and talent that I get to be around every night, eight times a week.

I surround myself with incredible musicians who inspire me to always do my best.

I'm working with theatre-makers who are the top of their game, and it's extraordinary.

I feel that I don't know anything, I don't know how to act, but I can surrender myself to a director I respect and love. I feel very lucky to be a part of their visions.

Talent should minister to genius.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

Giving calls for genius.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.