Soni Razdan Quotes

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

Nepotism has always existed in Bollywood.

One would be lying if they say nepotism doesn't exist.

Getting that debut film is definitely harder than someone who has got a known last name. I mean some star kids don't even audition.

Nepotism is a natural thing that happens in every field.

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.

We had less qualified trumping more qualified people just because of their political connections.

I stand by it. I take the criticism for it. I think it's unfair, but yes, there is a thing about nepotism, and we all try to respect it.

When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

After getting the job at MTV, the challenge was, 'How do I start my career as a television host without people holding my dad's career over my head?' It's a very easy thing for people to look to my dad and say, 'Well, he got his job because of this.'

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.

My father was against nepotism.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.

Nepotism exists - not just in Bollywood but in every profession in India.

There are only advantages of being Salim Khan's son, Salman Khan's brother and coming from a known family.

Everything was a lot more challenging for me because of who my brother was. If I were in the film, someone would had said that I got the part because Eddie's in the film. If I wrote a script, folks would say that I didn't really write that: that Eddie did and I threw my name on it.

I don't know how people get into show business if their family's not in it.

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.

Ours is not the only party which has more representation of family members.

Everyone has a family, even if they're at war or fallen apart. It's the closest initial bond, and there's a sort of primal element to that. Your primary relationships are formed out of family.

Me and both my brothers got permits to attend Beverly because two of my uncles and my uncle's wife all taught and coached at Beverly Hills High. But I grew up in South Central.