All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.
I left my native place to come to Mumbai, got routinely cheated, was given bad words, had phones and doors slammed on me. All my work and time was going down the drain. I didn’t get credit for some work I did.
People want to be entertained. They don’t want to be cheated.
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven’t cheated.
A lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
I have no physical genius about me. I can’t dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can’t do lay-ups – I’m not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn’t participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can’t concentrate on it. People always say, ‘You should have tried harder.’ But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.
I have never cheated anybody out of a victory, I have worked hard for every single race that I have won.
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it’s not the most Christian of sentiments.
I wasn’t allowed to audition for anything professionally until I was – I guess I cheated a little bit and started when I was in college, but I graduated! Barely.
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn’t provided, or if it doesn’t happen, then people feel cheated.
I’ve never cheated or been cheated upon. I’ve seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don’t feel good about yourself.
It’s one of those things when you’re down in the red area, a lot of teams double me. Two-man, guys sit underneath me, so I can’t really slant. They have a safety kind of cheated out, as far as the fade balls and things like that. But when we get our opportunities, we’ve got to make people pay.
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