Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it.

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Politics is compromise.

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

A result of accommodation and compromise cannot be supposed perfectly to coincide with any one’s idea of perfection.

Truth is often attended with danger

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.