I know what I always enjoyed about ‘Flip or Flop’ was the design part, so it just naturally made sense to get more involved in doing makeovers.
I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there’s always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there’s a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that’s what keeps me going.
Since ‘Flip or Flop’ aired in 2013, people really weren’t asking me, like, ‘Hey, what paint color is that?’ or, ‘Where’d you get that cabinet?’ It was more, ‘How do you stay healthy? How do you balance work life with the kids? What are you eating during the day?’
I could have easily been too afraid to say ‘yes’ to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven’t done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.
I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won’t flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.
Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.
I’m trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It’s really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we’ll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.
After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times, and then one night it’ll flop.
People correlate your skill with a hit or flop.
My first show was in Patkar Hall next to Bombay Hospital. It was a total flop. I was so nervous standing in front of all those people that I completely froze. I forgot all my lines and the audience booed me off the stage. I realised that day that you have to earn the audience’s appreciation. They aren’t fools.
I’d rather give one hit song than a flop film.
It’s Chiranjeevi garu who gave the clap to my first shot. It was a risky shot. After doing it, I told myself that a star was born. Only later did I realize that it was a flop star who was born that day. I had 10-12 flops for the next few years.
Common wisdom in Texas Hold’em suggests that you should raise before the flop if you’re planning to play a hand. The saying goes, ‘Raise or fold,’ but is that correct? Well, it’s not the worst advice, but limiting yourself to one of these two options would be a mistake.
Unfortunately in Bollywood, if your film is a flop, your acting is considered flop too.
There is always pressure. If you make a flop film then you are under pressure to make a hit film. If you make a hit film then you are under pressure to surpass your own standard or at least deliver another hit because the audience also has expectations.
In fact, most of the roles that I did came to me after being rejected by others. I chose them because of the potential. Every film that I have chosen has been crucial in my career, be it a hit or a flop.
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
I’m not a flopper. I hate when people say I’m a flopper. I don’t flop. You never see me flying all over the floor. None of that. I barely fall down in games.
The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
I don’t really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
Except for certain moments – when cells are dividing, for instance – chromosomes don’t form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.
By taking the lead on the flop, I can give myself opportunities to win more money when I am strong and pick up some uncontested pots when I’m not.
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
It takes time and energy, and if I’m working, then I’d rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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.
It’s not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like ‘Nippu,’ ‘Devudu Chesina Manushulu’ and ‘Sarostaru’ which were really bad. But, ‘Veera’ and ‘Dharuvu’ had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my ‘flop list.’
You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they’re not successful and you don’t have the business structure in place, everything will flop.
I had the yellow mohican when I was 13, 14. I didn’t quite pull it off, though, because I didn’t really have the right hair products. It would stay up for five minutes and then just flop down.
I was even treated as a ‘flop,’ a contract that doesn’t pay. But I kept working my best.
I remember going to the cinema to watch ‘Blade Runner’ when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it.
There is always a hit and a flop, it’s part of working in the film industry.
The reason I don’t do the Flair Flop anymore is because women’s wrestling is being taken so seriously. I’ll only perform something comedic like that at a house show.
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