Top 44 Abhay Deol Quotes

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

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.

I dislike labels like ‘commercial’ and ‘non commercial.’

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

Love has no nationality for me. I have a preference for dark skin but that’s just superficial.

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

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

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

I’d rather point a finger at myself than others.

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.

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.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it’s always a pleasure to go back there.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The kind of content I want to be part of is hardly made.

When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

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

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.

‘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.

The craziest thing I’ve done for love? Put my life on hold.

I enjoy films like ‘American Beauty’ and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.

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

I am not a politician nor an activist but in my small way try and bring change with the kind of films I do.

In real life I don’t chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.

If you perceive someone to be stylish then even if they are shabbily dressed you would consider that as a new style statement.

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.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

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

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.

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

I don’t see myself being perceived as a Bollywood star and I wouldn’t want to be that either.

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

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

I’m not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don’t look like a hero.

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

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.