Manoj Kumar Quotes

Manoj Kumar

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 24, 1937

I was never a good student.

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I played the common man and his rise through politics in my film 'Yaadgar' years before Kejriwal came.

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To make our cinema international, we first need to make national movies.

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If someone comes to your house, you have to be courteous.

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Every actor is itching to act.

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When I started to make films, I started writing about Bhagat Singh in my earlier days. There were some incidents which I had to conceive within the framework. Every film made later on Bhagat Singh featured the scenes which I had conceived.

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I never thought that one day I become an actor and a director likewise I never thought that one day Narendra Modi would become the Prime Minister of the nation.

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I was just 10 and in fourth standard when we shifted from Pakistan to the Hudson Lines in Kingsway camp area in Delhi.

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This is my only regret in life. I lost my little brother, and my parents very early.

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I was the first one to introduce cut-to-cut scripts, shoot in real hotels and bungalows instead of sets, and even sported dark glasses.

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My father made me swear that I would never resort to violence in life.

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When I had left home in Delhi in 1956 to come to Bombay to become a hero, my father gave me a letter. In that letter, he said, 'My blood can never commit blunders, only mistakes.' I made mistakes in my career, but not blunders.

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I am not a greedy film person even as an actor.

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Some people in our society specialise in stopping creative people from doing what they do.

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Though I was influenced by Dilip Kumar, I never copied him.

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Dilip Kumar did not have any starry airs.

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Dilip Kumar was meticulous and specific about each nuance of his own character. He imbibed that sense in me too.

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My dream was to direct Dilip Kumar.

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Meri Desh ki Dharti' happened when lyricist Gulshan Bawra and I gone to a shrine to pay our respects.

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Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated musically.

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