I’m greedy, but I’ve always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
Released in 1967, ‘Farz’ was the remake of a Telegu film that was turned down by most actors of the time – Manoj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Dharmendra… I was the needy and greedy one then and signed the film gladly.
I don’t wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Protect your hand when you’re confident you’re in the lead. Don’t be greedy and try to milk your opponent for a few more chips when the pot is already large.
I am a greedy actor, and it upsets me losing work I have wanted to do, but that is a motivator not a dampener.
When the world decides to stop being greedy… there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don’t really want to have an exception to that model. It’s much easier to say, ‘Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.’
I’m greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She’s on her third shift right now.
The Masters is not greedy. You wanna buy a Masters souvenir logo shirt? Sure, let’s go over to the nearest Ralph Lauren boutique. Oops, you can only purchase Masters memorabilia at the Masters, this one week of the year.
I’m naturally greedy and would end up the size of a house if I ate all I wanted all of the time.
Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
I am a person who is greedy to do better in life, to do more in life.
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
I’m perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don’t pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I’m actually being quite greedy, because what I’m doing is essentially saying, ‘I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.’
We don’t want our MPs to become greedy like those of other parties.
I’m getting too old to play some parts, but I’m still greedy.
I’m greedy for experience. I keep finding new things.
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
I believe I was extremely greedy.
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don’t be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone’s money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.
I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.
There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?
I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it’s healthy to be a greedy child.
I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what’s next.
I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn’t care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I’m thinking: ‘Of course I want to win. I’ve been winning my entire life.’
I’m always looking for those knockouts but I’m looking to do it in a better fashion. Not rushing, not blitzing, not putting myself at risk. Not just being too greedy.
Sivaji’ was a fantastic movie. It is one movie I am going to take back to my grave and like a greedy actor, I want more such movies in my career.
The point is that you can’t be too greedy.
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation… I’ve seen it in punk clubs, and I’ve seen it in the world.
I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.
I’m not overly greedy.
‘Greedy gut’ is my middle name. I love food, and I love parts.
You and I probably wouldn’t be here if our ancestors hadn’t been greedy savages.
I’m a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.
I’ve been fat my whole life and pretended I don’t mind. But I do mind. It’s really stupid that I’ve gone on being greedy and fat.
When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it’s very apparent.
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to ‘hoods.’
I’m not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn’t live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I’d be happy.
I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.
I’ve always been greedy. I think every actor is greedy for good parts and stories, and it should be that way.
Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the world, rather than to enrich a few.
There’s something on Wall Street called PIG – panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I’m not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn’t panic.
Up until 1400BC, citadel settlements are stable. Goddesses – notably in charge of fertility and learning – have a crucial role to play. But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.
I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.
I think a project is full of charms if it’s a good production or has a character that I’m greedy for.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
I’m not a real greedy guy.
What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things – to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
I’m greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I’m happy to be busy.
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.
God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
I don’t understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else’s life.
In tennis it’s easy to get greedy – and one Grand Slam doesn’t feel enough any more.
I say you don’t need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.
Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn’t why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can’t.
As an actor, I am greedy. I want to experiment with all actors and directors.
I want to do everything and be greedy in that way – film, TV, radio, theatre. If it’s juicy work, I want it!
