Suniel Shetty Quotes

So many things could go wrong, on any film. I've been out in L.A. for eight years and I've been acting professionally for a long time, and you realize that you have to prepare and work hard, but you never know what could go wrong.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

I've been doing independent films for 10 years, but one out of five didn't see the light of day.

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Every movie is unknown.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

When I left college, I though that I would be immediately embraced by the film world and instead found myself sitting in a squat for three years not knowing what to do with my life.

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

I was doing a couple of films which got shelved a week before the shooting was supposed to start.

You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I've learned to not forecast anything beyond the year, because when I went to Stanford, I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. So it's just hilarious to look back at all of the things I wanted to do.

You never know the way your career takes.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting f***ed.

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.