Victor Banerjee Quotes

Victor Banerjee

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 15, 1946

My wife Maya Bhate is from Pune. My daughters Diya and Keya, and I, are regular visitors to the city, since her family is based here.

Victor Banerjee

The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars.

Victor Banerjee

I live in Mussoorie. I love my birds and Himalayas. There is always a new mountain to climb and mountains keep coming to me.

Victor Banerjee

Playing an Anglo Indian was very easy for me because I have grown up in Kolkata, and I have many Anglo Indian friends.

Victor Banerjee

When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you. As a rebel, I decided to do it.

Victor Banerjee

Really, I've had enough of fame. Now I just want money.

Victor Banerjee

We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our passions like bright flags. Calcutta is our city.

Victor Banerjee

I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.

Victor Banerjee

The floors were so sparkling clean you could eat off them. But we only ate off silver. Our grapes were imported from Persia. When my mother married, 10 English sergeants guarded her gifts of jewelry.

Victor Banerjee

I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people - their simplicity and honesty - comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.

Victor Banerjee

I loved Peter Sellers whenever he played an Indian.

Victor Banerjee

I was born a Hindu, I shall die a Hindu.

Victor Banerjee

Our armed forces, not our parliament of dunces, are our pride. Doubting our armed forces' integrity and honesty is a disgraceful travesty.

Victor Banerjee

My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual Guru are my parents.

Victor Banerjee

To this day my father cringes when he has to tell friends, 'My son's a movie actor.'

Victor Banerjee

When Western filmmakers look for an Indian they want him to play a snake charmer, a chauffeur or a peanut vendor.

Victor Banerjee

It was a wonderful childhood. They spoiled me rotten.

Victor Banerjee

I don't know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

Victor Banerjee

Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.

Victor Banerjee

'Kalyug' and 'A Passage to India' did get me a lot of recognition and acclamation. But for some reason I stopped getting offers from Bollywood after that.

Victor Banerjee