Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Abhay Deol - Page 2

I believe there are two kinds of journalists. One who sells a story by being creative, and one who sells a story by being sensationalist.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and forget about it.

If I did an item song, it would be something to watch out for.

I'm more comfortable watching 'Dev D' with my mom than a film that makes a woman an object whose only purpose is to dance provocatively.

With my social media posts on fairness creams, I felt really strongly that I needed to speak up about it because I think we can take baby steps. Colour and caste is engrained in our culture, but I don't think it should be applauded or packaged and sold.

If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

Tamil for me is my cousin Esha. I even told her that I was preparing to play a Tamilian and asked her if she could teach me the language.

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

I like subtlety, blending in as opposed to screaming out 'look at me' with the way I dress.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

The Deol family is very close knit and emotional.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

'Basra' is high on content, but a good dose of action sequences will make it edgy and pretty dark as well.

I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

I don't even know if I'd get married. Time will tell.

If we are not affected by our environment, then we have somewhere become insensitive. It might be good in a way because you might not be affected by anything and be calm always.

'One by Two' is a film about two people who live in the same city and do certain things that affect each other's lives. Yet, they are strangers. It's difficult to put the film in any particular genre or box.

It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.

I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

I might say 'let's get married' because I am not rigid, I live moment to moment. These are my views and it is person to person, one should not get influenced with what I am saying.

It is definitely hard when you're going against the tide. Of course, it is tough. But does that mean you can't do it? No, it depends on your strength, stamina and ability to take so much power against you.

I want to do different roles and not get stuck in a rut and 'Shanghai' will be one film I'm absolutely looking forward to.

I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.

I dislike labels like 'commercial' and 'non commercial.'

After 'Socha Na Tha' flopped, nobody wanted to work with me. I became very bitter and angry. So now when the industry and the audience accept me, I feel more empowered.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer, I'm on.

I really want to do a film with my uncle and my cousins. I'm sure it will be really interesting to work with them.

I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.

We have 5000-year-old history which is now almost a part of our DNA. How do you break that? America, for example, doesn't have that history behind it. It romanticizes rebellion. We look down upon rebellion. It's an insult. To think out-of-the-box is looked down upon here.

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh.