Rakhi Sawant Quotes

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

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

It is easier for a star kid to get noticed than for a person coming from a non-film background. That being said, I didn't get my first movie because I was Jackie Shroff's son.

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

I didn't want to land an audition because I was 'The daughter of...' I never wanted to give anyone the opportunity to say, 'You only got the role because of who you are.'

I don't think the world works on merit.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.

After a point, it doesn't matter where you come from. There are many star kids who haven't done well in the industry and rank newcomers who have done amazingly well.

It is not a shocker to me that a film went out of my hands, not because I was not credible, but because I was not so-and-so's daughter or sister or dating so-and-so.

Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I'm not prepared, I'm not afforded the luxury of, 'Oh, he's a little green.' It's, 'He's not talented,' where the next guy can have a bad day.

Nepotism and outsiders are two sides of the same coin that is Bollywood. They both have to co-exist. Both have their share of struggles.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

What I have a problem with is money and name at the expense of talent and culture.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I don't care for people who are given peerages who have paid for them. I think it happens, and I don't like that.

My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Just because my dad is Clint Eastwood doesn't mean I don't have to work for a living.