Vivek Oberoi Quotes

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter.

I done been to so many funerals.

I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.

I think too many obituaries have been written about me.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.

I have been an actor for more than 125 films now. People see me every day, every hour, be it on TV or in newspapers.

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices; these prejudices are the scariest things. People judge a personal life or your image, and it can affect the characters I play. Therefore, I try not to showcase my personal life too much.

Some people say, 'Oh, you look just like the guy from 'Stranger Things.' And I'm like, 'I am the guy.' And they think I'm totally joking.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.