Abhay Deol Quotes

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

I overcame size with mechanics.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into.

I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

I was an ordinary student at school and, at the same time, an actor. But I was not the popular kid, which helped me to play Peter Parker better.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

There aren't any real dumb people in my voices. It's always irritated me about Hollywood dialogue - there's so much dialogue that would just bore a Ford mechanic. This is not how people talk.

Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.