Shahid Kapoor Quotes

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.

If you have a successful run, everything comes to you. Nothing succeeds like success.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It's the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

You really have to be ambitious and have that drive to really become well known and successful as a standup.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

I want to win lots of titles.

I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Everybody says that 'Balika Vadhu' is the best thing to have happened to me, but I pray for the strength to work hard.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.

When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.