Vignesh Shivan Quotes

The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

I try to keep my integrity. I don't want to be in 'Hello!' or on 'Celebrity Big Brother.'

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

I am not insecure or conscious that my image might get hampered. I don't think one should think the image will get spoilt due to Bigg Boss.'

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.

Michael Jackson is a cake-and-eat-it kind of guy. He has never recognized or accepted the fact that when you shove yourself in people's face, they're not going to look just at the part you're showing them. People want to see everything that's connected to the face.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.

People have only two or three adjectives to describe people in the public eye. And that's okay. As long as those adjectives aren't train wreck, mess, terrible.

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - are not that different either. You hope that if you met them that they'd be as nice and well-rounded as they appear.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.