Nana Patekar Quotes

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

In fact I spent a lot of time in my childhood trying to figure out what other people wanted of me. That made me study other people very much. Then I actually started university and I got quite bored. This is when I found out I wanted to be an actor.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.