Vivek Oberoi Quotes

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

I have no ambitions to be a pop star.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

Like, if you are a celebrity, then anyone will let you be in a film or on a TV show, and if you're an actor, chances are if you are successful, you are becoming a celebrity.

What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.

I never wanted to be a pop star.

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

We wanted to be successful, we wanted to shoot a video. We just wrote a song and we were like, 'OK, let's go onstage! Let's shoot a video for it!' That was always our dream... We just wanted to have fans and a crowd who would listen.

No star is bigger than the success of a film.

We certainly weren't expecting to become pop stars.

I think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

All the top stars like Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh, etc. do very few films a year and I don't think it's affected their visibility or fan following in any way.

I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I've got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there's a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now.

When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into 'The Originals' and 'Legacies' and that fandom for the first time, I didn't know how to handle it at first, but I have a better grip on it now.

'Bigg Boss' is a show where you create a new fan following.

Marital status is not going to affect one's prospects or fan following, for ultimately, talent will prevail. Take Aamir Khan or Shah Rukh Khan, for instance. Actors are mere dream sellers. They cannot become everyone's lover.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

I love my fans, and I love my relationship with the fans, but when you're a performer, and you're used to being the mac daddy, the main cat, and all of a sudden you're not that guy anymore, it's kind of a whole different spectrum and a whole different level.

I'm in the public eye. I'm a celebrity and a football player.

As actors, we want more people to love and appreciate us. We want more fans.

For an actor, who has done so many commercial movies, who has a large chunk of his fan following addressing him as 'guru,' it's not easy to opt for roles that strip one of the stardom.

If fans consider me a heartthrob, I think it has more to do with the kind of characters that I have played.