Dev Anand Quotes

'Twilight' has been a great opportunity, and it's been great fun. Hey, if I'm 50, and someone still wants an autograph for 'Twilight,' OK, cool.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

To all the younglings I come across in 'Game of Thrones' who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend - they will remember you.

Fame comes and goes. Longevity is the thing to aim for.

I'd want to be born once more as myself, but more talented.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

Jay-Z just got that longevity. He can put out anything at any time and everybody will love it. He'll never get old.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Everyone from the pope to some hobo thinks, "I'm a human being. What am I doing here?" You can't get carried away with fame and fortune and all that. It's all nonsense. The whole pop-star side of it is all fun and good, but you don't get anywhere without putting in the hours. I get so fulfilled when we play a song live that we spent hours working on. It's all cool. Fame is something to have fun with, but you shouldn't take it too seriously because it is bollocks.

I love being a star more than life itself.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

We die, and we do not die.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.