These Bollywood quotes will inspire you. Hindi cinema, often known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema,[4] is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Bollywood quotes, Bollywood sayings, and Bollywood proverbs.
Famous Bollywood Quotes
- “I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.” ~ Bruce Sterling
- “I’d need a good reason to drop my pants” ~ Sidharth Malhotra
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“Don’t underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.” ~ Anita Roddick
- “The West sometimes doesn’t understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.” ~ Anurag Kashyap
- “I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It’s my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don’t like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.” ~ Russell Peters
- “People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.” ~ Shahrukh Khan
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“I think Deepika is the best looking girl and actor in Bollywood.” ~ Sendhil Ramamurthy
- “I don’t think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.” ~ Freida Pinto
- “Of course, I follow Bollywood. In fact, it’s widely followed in Brazil.” ~ Ronaldinho
- “You’ve got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, ‘This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'” ~ Mira Nair
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“I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.” ~ Preity Zinta
- “I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the ’30s and ’40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?” ~ Julian Sands
- “There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I’m very competitive as a person, but I’ve never been a part of any clique, and I’ve always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.” ~ Priyanka Chopra
- “I think I’m close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.” ~ Arjun Rampal , Bollywood quotes on friendship
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“The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!” ~ Brad Pitt
- “As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.” ~ Simon Beaufoy
- “I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.” ~ Maggie Grace
- “One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I’m not looking for actors. I feel I’m looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.” ~ Deepa Mehta
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“I’ve love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.” ~ Indira Varma
- “Films with female protagonists don’t attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero’s love interest.” ~ Bipasha Basu
- “If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it’s often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn’t it?” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.” ~ Rohit Shetty
- “It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It’s commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.” ~ Deepa Mehta
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“What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.” ~ Om Puri
- “Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.” ~ Sunny Deol
- “I don’t think every actress in Bollywood has been associated with Lux. A select few actresses, who they felt suited the brand right (have been associated with it) and they all have been actresses of great stature with wonderful careers and some wonderful work. I am very honoured to join the group of people who have been with Lux over the years.” ~ Katrina Kaif
- “I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.” ~ Shahrukh Khan
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“Except for Preity Zinta, I haven’t met a single secure actress in Bollywood.” ~ Katrina Kaif
- “I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.” ~ Freida Pinto , Bollywood quotes about life
- “Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.” ~ Irrfan Khan
- “I saw ‘Brokeback Mountain’ in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.” ~ Karan Johar
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“It wasn’t easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.” ~ Esha Gupta
- “In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don’t have to struggle that much.” ~ Vir Das
- “In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.” ~ Vir Das
- “In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.” ~ Vir Das
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“I’m fascinated by Bollywood.” ~ Tracey Ullman
- “The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.” ~ Radhanath Swami , Bollywood quotes on love
- “You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.” ~ Roland Joffe
- “Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn’t they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.” ~ Mira Nair
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“Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.” ~ Mithun Chakraborty
- “I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.” ~ Mike Myers
- “Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever.'” ~ Christian Louboutin
- “I wish I was dating one of the ladies in ‘Bollywood Hero.’ They’re gorgeous. Any of them.” ~ Chris Kattan
- “There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.” ~ Anurag Kashyap
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“I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.” ~ Vijender Singh
- “I don’t want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.” ~ Russell Peters
- “For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.” ~ Vir Das
- “Who doesn’t know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur.” ~ Arjun Rampal
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“I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.” ~ Saina Nehwal
- “Bollywood is huge. Anything that’s made in large quantity will evidently overshadow others. But that won’t stop artistes from making albums. A person who has faith in his music will go ahead.” ~ Kailash Kher
- “I’d love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I’d love to direct. One day. I’m learning a lot on the set of ‘The Good Wife.'” ~ Archie Panjabi
- “I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.” ~ Irrfan Khan
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“I don’t listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.” ~ Kailash Kher
- “A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I’d pay a lot to see them, but alas, I’m fully booked elsewhere.” ~ Bruce Sterling
- “I have been into bodies and fitness, so I am very critical about how a body should look in terms of flaunting it. I would never fall down and roll and do a cleavage shot – I have seen those in Bollywood films, and those are things I cannot tolerate. I wouldn’t do that. That’s not me – I’d rather look sharp and sexy and stylish just doing a walk.” ~ Bipasha Basu
- “If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don’t have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman… You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.” ~ Russell Peters
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“I’ve chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.” ~ Hrithik Roshan
- “I am a huge fan of Bollywood movies. Whenever I get time, I enjoy watching Hindi movies. Cooking really interests me, so I also experiment with food in my free time.” ~ Satnam Singh Bhamara
- “Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.” ~ Madhur Mittal
- “My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.” ~ Rani Mukerji
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“I’ve grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.” ~ Vijender Singh
- “Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don’t believe it, ask your mom!” ~ Imtiaz Ali
- “Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand” ~ Prabal Gurung
Bollywood industry is related to the Cinema of South India and other Indian film industries, making up Indian cinema—the world’s largest by a number of feature films produced.
