Ayushmann Khurrana

“All I am looking for is a fine combination of critical and commercial acclaim. Whether conventional or unconventional - does not matter.”

“I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.”

“I've always believed that getting respect as an artiste is of utmost importance.”

“For an artiste to grow, for a person to grow, you have to learn. A learner cannot afford to have an ego. Learning can never stop. If it does, then it is death.”

“I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'”

“'Vicky Donor' dealt with a taboo topic, but it was a family entertainer and not cringe-worthy, which helped make it a commercial success.”

“I have realised that at the end of the day, I have to detach from my films, just do my job, and move on.”

“I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.”

“My debut, 'Vicky Donor,' was when I was 27. If I was a star kid, it would've been 22. I don't think the difference of five years would've affected much.”

“A good script can come from anywhere.”

“I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.”

“In 2012, when I left MTV, irregular income started.”

“I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.”

“I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose scripts, I take out the garb of an actor-slash-star, and I consume t...”

“Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.”

“I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that.”

“I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult for me to learn a musical instrument.”

“I wanted to work with Sriram Raghavan, the master of noir.”

“I was a part of the reality show wave in 2002. Back then, no one had seen non-fiction on TV, and we had no reference point, so we all were just excited to see cameras around us.”

“An actor's off-screen persona should never overshadow his on-screen characters.”