Hina Khan Quotes

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

I'm the only one in the family who stumbled into acting.

My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.

People always think that I came from this dynasty of actors. But that's not true, because it was just dad. So as a child... I got to try it out really young... and I really loved it. I pretty much made my decision back then to become an actor. And then, more and more of us have joined the trend. So now, we're definitely an acting family.

My family has always said... if you're going to get into politics, do it for the right reasons, not because you've got to carry on something.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

My family is a conservative one. They don't want me to join films and I also go by their wishes.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

I studied the sciences up until going to college, and I was either going to do medicine or drama. I chose drama, but I come from a whole line of doctors.

There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.

I started getting modelling assignments and that's how I became interested in acting. But my father, who last watched Dilip Kumar's ' Devdas,' wanted me to do MBA. I didn't listen to him and gave my audition for Yash Raj films' 'Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge' and got selected for it.

Whether I work or not depends on the family I get married to.