R. Madhavan Quotes

If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect.

I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

I am trying to do the best work I possibly can and making movies that will have resonance for years to come. I think if you try for an Oscar or a goal like that, the more people are going to see it as transparent. It's not on my radar. If it happens, great, but I'm happy to continue working as I am, really.

I'm very lucky and very fortunate to have survived and to still be working after 45 years.

Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.

I used to say that it won't be until I'm 40, 50, 60 years old, still working consistently, will I be able to look back on my career and say, 'Wow, I have been successful.'

I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.

I think that's one of the reasons why I've been able to have a great career for 20 years - because I'm able to adapt.

I won't have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

I am lucky that I am surviving in the industry despite the kind of films I have made, which are absolutely unconventional.

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

I have become limitless and stronger. You don't need that attitude to survive in Bollywood, but when you are doing a film like 'Raaz,' you can't go on set with inhibitions.

In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.

If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go.

I used to say if there was anything I would really want to have as I kind of get older in my career, it would be wonderful to have relevance to somebody in some way so that I could continue to work on some level.