Kamal Haasan Quotes

When someone attacks you, there is always an opportunity, and that's what I look for.

You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

You know, you can only get beat up so much. And then you turn it around, and you're like, OK, we're not taking this anymore.

I believe in not sitting down and taking it easy.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

No damn man kills me and lives.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

If you fall then that's not all... if you wish to be down then stay down... if you wish to be up then get up.

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

I say to people that it's a choice that we make every day in our lives. Doesn't matter what you're going through. You don't have to be going through what I went through. But it's whether you decide to get up or stay down, whether you say 'yes' or whether you say 'no' to life. Basically, I decided to say, 'Yes.'

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.