Nana Patekar Quotes

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

Usually when I work, I'm totally dedicated to the role, and when I leave the set, I bring some of my character home with me, but I can't bring anyone home with me now because my son would freak out.

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

The character I played on 'Everwood' was so serious and melancholic that after doing it for four years, it really started affecting my soul. I was becoming Ephram.

It's real easy to be in the WWE and let your passion or your pain or the schedule put you in a bad place.

I was a player for 20 years. When there was something bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual standard. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?

I don't have a real life. I just work all the time.

I do some really intense roles and it's not good to bring them home.

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

We all know what this business can do to you... you end up walking on your heels.

The business has taken a toll on me.

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

The drama takes a toll on you.

Hollywood can be a draining industry. For all the glitz and glory and wonderful parts of our business, it takes it's toll on your inner self.

I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.