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"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot"

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Growth, in Sanjay Dutt's telling, isn’t about prestige roles or box-office muscle. It’s about vulnerability: romance, dance, and the uniquely unforgiving spotlight of a live audience. For a screen actor - especially one who came up in Hindi cinema’s star system, where “presence” is often treated like a birthright - admitting discomfort is almost a quiet rebellion. He’s naming the parts of performance that can’t be muscled through with swagger: tenderness that doesn’t curdle into melodrama, choreography that demands surrender to rhythm, the immediate feedback loop of a crowd that can’t be edited around.

The intent reads as both personal confession and career recalibration. Dutt has long carried a public persona shaped by hypermasculine roles and a turbulent off-screen narrative. In that context, “romantic scene” and “dancing on stage” aren’t lightweight skills; they’re symbolic terrain. Romance requires an actor to be seen wanting something without armor. Dance, especially live, requires a willingness to look imperfect in real time. “I’ve really opened up a lot” lands less like a self-help platitude and more like a strategic reframing: the idea that maturity is the willingness to be soft on camera and exposed in public.

The subtext is craft-as-rehabilitation. Not redemption as spectacle, but the slower work of becoming pliable again - emotionally, physically, professionally. He’s signaling that longevity isn’t just surviving controversy or changing trends; it’s expanding the range of what you’re willing to feel in front of strangers.

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Dutt, Sanjay. (2026, January 16). As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-an-actor-ive-grown-considerably-its-taken-me-88079/

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Dutt, Sanjay. "As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-an-actor-ive-grown-considerably-its-taken-me-88079/.

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"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-an-actor-ive-grown-considerably-its-taken-me-88079/. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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Sanjay Dutt (born July 29, 1959) is a Actor from India.

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