To find a good script is very important, because the chances and opportunities I would be getting will be very far and few.
— Saqib Saleem
I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.
I can't do too many films.
In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.
Had I not been an actor, I would have been counting cash at my father's restaurant or supervising activities in the kitchen. I did it for a year when I was in college. I put on 10 kgs and then it hit me that I couldn't do that anymore.
I started getting modelling assignments and that's how I became interested in acting. But my father, who last watched Dilip Kumar's ' Devdas,' wanted me to do MBA. I didn't listen to him and gave my audition for Yash Raj films' 'Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge' and got selected for it.
Ever since I became an actor, I wanted my film to release on Eid.
I want the whole country to love me and I have no qualms in admitting it.
It's soo freaking hard studying all night for your exams when you know there is no hope of clearing the dreaded Hindi paper.
It's so hard saying goodbye... it's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.
Our lives are slowly but surely becoming connected to each other.
With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.
Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.
The traffic is getting worse everyday and thus making people do things they ideally wouldn't do and you can't blame them as sitting in their cars getting baked in the sun for at least a couple of hours everyday would turn anyone delirious.
One of the defining moments in my life was when I had the privilege to speak to him over the phone. I couldn't say anything - I was tongue tied. I just cried out of sheer happiness. That day I made a promise to myself; One day I will play for Sachin's team- I'll play for team India.
Not many people know this about me, but my first passion in life was cricket.
I was a bully while growing up.
There is time for everything in life.
I was doing a couple of films which got shelved a week before the shooting was supposed to start.
I take time with my films and I want to work on every script properly before I move on to something else.
Whatever I have achieved in the industry is something I consider to be amazing.
I am damn happy for Huma. I think 'Kaala' will be a game changer for her, it is one of the nicest script.
While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.
Doing action gives you a different high altogether.
The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.
It's difficult to keep your eyes moist free and your head clear when the girl you really really liked chooses to go on a date with your best friend.
I feel as an actor it is very essential to develop new hobbies at least once every two to three months, so that you are pretty well acquainted with all the new things around you.
Just because something is not happening to you doesn't mean that it never will.
Though I have been a sportsperson all my life, movies have always been an essential part of my life.
I am a movie buff - I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year I was born in... haha).
I can never be on time anywhere.
When kids my age were crying over girls, my first heartbreak was not because of some silly school time crush but because I lost out on playing for Delhi's Under 14 team, even after I was selected in the playing eleven.
Beckham is the best styled person in the world.
A brother can give his sister lots of love.
Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.
Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.
The definition of love keeps evolving.
I came to Mumbai because I was in love with a girl.
I am just enjoying the attention I am getting. It has been very overwhelming.
Huma has made her mark in the industry with films like 'Gangs of Wasseypur' and 'Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana.' I am happy for what she has achieved today because we belong to a non-film background.
Before 'Race 3,' I had not done a role which required me to do action.
Things happen overnight for some people, not everyone.
It was hard saying goodbye to that oblivion they call childhood.
The actor's journey to learn should never stop.
We cannot stay enveloped in our own reality and turn a blind eye to the plight of others.
The point is movies can teach a lot without preaching.
I need to crack the Mumbai traffic code - if I leave early, under the assumption that there will be traffic, I get completely clear roads and reach an hour before my meeting, and then because I can't find parking I end up having to walk anyway.
I come from a family where two wheelers were not allowed. No seriously not even a tiny cycle around the compound.
Thank you Sachin Tendulkar. For teaching me and a million others how to be humble, how to keep fighting and above all how to be consistent in life. In whatever he does he is and always will be the man apart from my father who taught me about life. I love you.
It is a way to express yourself. Fashion has to be individual and I like to express my fashion the way I style myself.
