Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

People always put me completely out of the game, and that's even nicer because nobody expects you to do a good job and then you do a better job than everybody thinks and it's nicer.

No one expected me to become a champion.

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

People told me it was impossible to beat the Americans at their own game; there was a lot of politics involved and outsiders didn't stand a chance. But if you're good enough, nothing else matters - I'm living proof of it!

People think that you're gonna come out, be a one hit wonder, and finished. You gotta prove 'em wrong.

There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit. The expectations were so low I could blow their head off.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

There aren't many hits like 'Kinky Boots,' so when you get one, the gratitude that comes with it fuels your energy. From the time I started in this business, everybody told me that who I was and what I represented would never work. Well, I get to stand on stage every day and prove the naysayers wrong by doing exactly what they told me not to do.

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

I am used to people underestimating me.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can't.