Rajkummar Rao Quotes

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

I have to make myself available for work. If I'm going to sit around only for great roles, I won't get the right one.

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.

There are millions of ­people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it's a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.

You've gotta realize this - you could be working at Burger King or working for the biggest wrestling company in the world.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.

My generation were all careerists.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

Hard as it is to believe, there were three magazines fighting over me. 'Newsweek' wanted to keep me, 'ESPN The Magazine' was coming into existence and wanted me, and 'SI' wanted to bring me back. Isn't that amazing? I had a choice, like a free agent.

I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

The competition to get above the rest and be the lead commentator, or whatever you want to call it, is much fiercer than it was when I was starting out. By the same token, there were not as many jobs going back then, so to get one was an achievement in itself.