Abhay Deol quotes

Abhay Deol

"I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote."
Abhay Deol
Politics Vote Never Will
"I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art."
Abhay Deol
Art Me Foundation More
"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."
Abhay Deol
Will Looking Want Looking Forward
"In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers."
Abhay Deol
Voice Cinema Professional Indian
"As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh."
Abhay Deol
Dress Clothes Like Up
"Lot of people liked me in 'Manorama Six feet Under,' 'Oye Lucky Lucky Oye,' 'Dev D' and 'Shanghai' and the only common thing in all these films is that when we were making them we never thought they would work. The ones that did not work were safe films."
Abhay Deol
Work Me People Feet
"I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make."
Abhay Deol
Work I Am True Want
"I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame."
Abhay Deol
Family Feel Fame Coming
"I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor."
Abhay Deol
Love Looking Acting Just
"The reaction to 'Dev D' success wasn't a balanced one from my end. I ran away! I should have stayed around and seen how I could balance things. But I wasn't capable of that."
Abhay Deol
Success Balance End Things
"Maybe I didn't take the advantage and become a star and get all the brands so that I could solidify my space in the world."
Abhay Deol
World Space Become Take
"I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice."
Abhay Deol
Wind Go Choice Only
"I have family in America and I lived with them for a while. Every few years, I feel the need to disassociate myself from what I do. It really helps the actor within me."
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Myself Family Me America
"When you do films after films, you don't let life happen. At least, in my case, I end up relying too much on emotions, which aren't raw enough. Travel helps me to get a renewed approach towards things."
Abhay Deol
Life Me You Travel
"Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity."
Abhay Deol
Myself Family Maturity Classmates
"I don't see myself being perceived as a Bollywood star and I wouldn't want to be that either."
Abhay Deol
Myself Want See Being
"I always wanted my work to speak for itself but I realized you have to show people a little bit of yourself and interact with them, especially before your film releases."
Abhay Deol
Work You People Yourself
"I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in."
Abhay Deol
Me Back Wrong I Can
"I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities."
Abhay Deol
People I Am Want Planet
"The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors."
Abhay Deol
Like Kind Often Directors
"The kind of content I want to be part of is hardly made."
Abhay Deol
Want Content Kind Made
"As long as it excites me, I am game for it."
Abhay Deol
Me Long Game I Am
"The craziest thing I've done for love? Put my life on hold."
Abhay Deol
Life Love My Life Done
"Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that's just superficial."
Abhay Deol
Love Me Skin Dark
"As a kid I wanted to run away from home every time I got a scolding for being naughty but I never did. Knowing now what happens to unprotected kids on the streets I'm glad I didn't."
Abhay Deol
Time Home Naughty Never
"Los Angeles is much like Mumbai, the film industry rules the city over most other professions, so it feels like home."
Abhay Deol
Home City Like Rules
"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."
Abhay Deol
Me Language Play She
"In real life I don't chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship."
Abhay Deol
Life Believe Real I Believe
"I know there is a higher being and I respect that force."
Abhay Deol
Respect Know Being Force
"Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero."
Abhay Deol
Hero Me Never Obstacles
"I'm not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don't look like a hero."
Abhay Deol
Hero Look Like Play
"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."
Abhay Deol
Work Me Angry Feel
"When a film is good, the lines between single-screen and multiplex blur."
Abhay Deol
Good Blur Lines Between
"I think marriage is a cultural thing - it's my opinion that nature doesn't tell someone to get married."
Abhay Deol
Nature Marriage Think Opinion
"I may or may not get married but I will settle down in a live-in."
Abhay Deol
Will Down May Get
"I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original."
Abhay Deol
Like Edgy Provocative Original
"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."
Abhay Deol
Believe Who I Believe Story
"I like subtlety, blending in as opposed to screaming out 'look at me' with the way I dress."
Abhay Deol
Me Look Dress Way
"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."
Abhay Deol
Myself I Am Reputation True
"I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles."
Abhay Deol
Life I Am Always Looking
"I don't think I am fearless. I am just me."
Abhay Deol
Me I Am Think Fearless
"Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it."
Abhay Deol
Good Personality You Battle
"There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex."
Abhay Deol
People Understanding Things Others
"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."
Abhay Deol
Culture Social Media Speak Caste
"I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution."
Abhay Deol
Always Think Solution Leads
"I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema."
Abhay Deol
Always Try Cinema Middle-Of-The-Road
"I always pick characters where it's not his muscles or dance skills that help him, because not all of us can look like that. I am more like someone who'd beat up ten guys, not with his muscles, but his strategy."
Abhay Deol
I Am Look Always Dance
"I grew up in this industry. I've seen fame up close."
Abhay Deol
Fame Industry Up Close
"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."
Abhay Deol
Work You Look Want

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