It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has…

- Om Puri

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

- Om Puri

The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You g…

- Om Puri

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we me…

- Om Puri

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

- Om Puri

I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actual…

- Om Puri

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

- Om Puri

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

- Om Puri

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.

- Om Puri