Vivek Oberoi Quotes

I feel like if I were to play the game completely and just get myself in a giant bottle of nail polish and put myself on display, I would feel like I had somehow cosmically lost. I feel like I'm taking a bunch of the ingredients and using some of them but not all of them and shuffling around and making people think I'm doing my job.

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

I like television, but there's not as much freedom as there is in film or theatre, and I always felt that there is a certain pressure in being able to put out a product, but it's OK.

Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.

I've been dancing and wearing costumes my whole life, so there's that sexiness to who I am that I enjoy.

I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter.

For the creative players, sometimes it is better that they are not under pressure.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

I feel like I grow wings on stage.

I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high school, I joined chamber choir. I wanted to do musical theater, too, but they had rehearsals at the same time. That was a bit of 'Sophie's Choice.'

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

Performing live is a part of who I am.

Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.

In general, I probably have a shy nature. So the idea of poking out with my music is probably not something I want to do.

I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.

I love to perform and express myself to inspire people.

It is so cool having complete control over something because, with acting, it's words written by other people that you perform; you do something that's completely not yourself.

For me, writing is just a means to an end. It gives me something to do on stage.

When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don't do that, it's like killing your musical life.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I get to do my own thing with music. I get to write the songs and sing the songs. As an actor, you have to do what someone else tells you to do and say someone else's words. And you're limited by the way you look and music is just more rewarding creatively for me.

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.