Karan Johar Quotes

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I'm pretty versatile. I'm able to adapt to an environment and the way I view things based on who I'm with.

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I've learned in my life that things change. Seasons changes, times change. We take different jobs. Our children grow. So, we have to study the people in our lives and adapt to them, because when we do that, we get more out of our relationships.

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in.

Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.