Shweta Menon Quotes

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both.

I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

I love being a mom. I love singing. Why can't you have both? A lot of people would say you can't, but I think you can balance it; if you work hard, and you plan everything out properly, it works.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Golf is such a big commitment, and so is acting. Sometimes you have to give up something to do something else, although, when I'm working on location, I always take my clubs.

I think it's important to have goals and to have dreams, but you also have to live in the moment of what the reality is.

Throughout the years I've been working as a model, I've gathered lots of information on the process of creating fashion without even trying.

Obviously there aren't many opportunities for someone who looks like me to walk in fashion shows. It's incredibly frustrating.

The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.

When I started modeling, I didn't know anything about fashion, but I'd watched the Victoria's Secret show.

I'm glad that it worked out that I get to act and play music and perform.

I was more of a commercial model. I wasn't into ramp walks or photo shoots.

When I think of 'Instagram models,' I say you have to take baby steps. You cannot just walk straight onto the runway.

There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'

I am a 100 percent determined to be a Victoria's Secret model.

I went to New York to be a model. That's all I wanted to be.

You get one go round in this life. Why are you going to settle for second best when you can get everything you want out of it?

For 10 years, I'd been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom.

I had no idea what modeling entailed and what an agency was. It was crazy. As I continued to do it, it was fun for me to learn everything from A to Z.

I always dreamed of doing this, being able to do track and field and the NFL at the same time.

I am the underdog, and I want to prove that one can follow one's dreams despite all the flaws and setbacks.