Barun Sobti Quotes

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

One of my great breaks is I have only done work I wanted to do.

Everyone deserves the chance to make their own choices. The first step on this pathway is experiencing the working world.

I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself.

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.

I tell all the young guys, don't make choices because somebody else is telling you it's good from a career-maintenance perspective.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

I like my life. I'm not living through anybody else's eyes, anybody else's life; I'm enjoying mine.