Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

When films fail, we definitely feel bad because, as a team, we put in so much effort.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

Daawat-E-Ishq' did not do as well as we expected, so yes, when a film doesn't do as well as you wanted it to, it hurts, especially after you have put your sweat and blood on it.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

There are so many projects that I've written and had to abort because either I felt too distressed by what I was doing to the people who I was writing about, or they couldn't cope with it because their view of themselves was so far removed from reality.

When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you for years.

Some films will work, some won't.

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

Sometimes, films that you do with a lot of care and look good at the time of signing may not work out for some reason or other.

Failure affects me hard.

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.

I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it, shamefully and blushingly bad at it. ... In moments of stress the embarrassment of how bad I was at Latin -- a subject I loved -- really hit me. It was like being laughed at by someone you desperately loved.

That's how disagreements always ended with Hugh Hefner; he would just stomp off, and you were left to pick the pieces of your self-worth up off the floor. I'd invested every part of myself in the mansion and had nothing waiting for me outside those gates. I felt so trapped and so vulnerable to his criticisms.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!