Disha Patani Quotes

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

I don't regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn't going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I'm 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I'd now be near the end of my career.

Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But yeah, when the other doors open, why not walk through?

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me to better places than if I had followed some career trajectory, which I wouldn't even know how to start.

I have so many passions. I'm just going to keep trying to go forward and see where they take me.

I know opportunities will come my way.

I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I left home at 21 to go and play for Munich and was immediately able to perform at a high standard. It was totally surreal, and I had no idea where it might lead.

No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.

I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.

Actually, I came to Mumbai from Jamshedpur in 1991 to become an actor. I began searching for work and I was all alone and absolutely empty-handed, no craft and nobody that I knew.

You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 years later and say, 'I never tried.' You got to try.