Abhay Deol Quotes

Abhay Deol

Profession : Actor

Birth : March 15, 1976

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.

Abhay Deol

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

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

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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.

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It would be great to read a script, which is an action script uniquely written so that it doesn't cost an arm or a leg because we are now accustomed to seeing action in the superhero form.

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

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I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

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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.

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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.

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I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema.

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I grew a very early distaste for fame and glamour because I saw what the spotlight and attention can do to you as a family, so to speak.

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If I want to do song and dance, I will and I would like to but I don't want to do it in every film. Where is the novelty then? It just takes the fun out of work for me.

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I may or may not get married but I will settle down in a live-in.

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I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

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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.

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The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that... it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.

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The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

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It harms me when people say I am 'non-mainstream' or 'non-commercial' actor. I try to fight off such labels.

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Being a Deol for me is to be honest; walking with my head held high and never having to bow in front of injustice.

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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.

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