Esha Gupta Quotes

A lot of people know that how I came to become an actor, but not many people know that how hard it was for me in those initial years. Being an outsider, I had no insight about the ways of the craft.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

I knew that I was just one of those actors who came to Mumbai to achieve their dreams. I knew that nobody would welcome me with open arms and auditions were the only way to get a chance.

I am not Padma Shri Manoj Bajpayee. I am Manoj Bajpayee, an outsider who saw dreams and stayed on the fringes of Mumbai and worked day and night to get work.

It's hard; this business of acting is hard.

When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

After all my hard work, I ventured into Bollywood with 'Traffic,' which is a remake of a Malayalam movie.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.

I signed my first film soon after I graduated from college. So, my real struggle started after my first film didn't do too well. But I believe failure only makes you stronger.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

Bejoy Nambiar had offered me 'Shaitaan' some years ago. But I wasn't confident about my Hindi.

Upgrade' was a hard one to make.

It is a challenge to work with a newcomer.

Every good looking and handsome boy goes to Mumbai first to struggle; he doesn't focus on Punjabi cinema.

I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.

I struggled for so many years.

Getting into network television was tougher than I thought it was gonna be.

I always wanted to act, but it was not because of the influence of my family. I just wanted to act since I was four! I used to watch a lot of movies. One of the things that attracted me were the songs picturised on 'Govinda' and Karisma Kapoor, who would dance in the middle of the street!

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

I've had to fight for everything.

I was 19 when I made my Bollywood debut with 'Ekk Deewana Tha,' and all alone in Mumbai. I would be easily affected by all that was said or written about me.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.