Harsha Bhogle Quotes

When I grew up, I tried to score off every ball, be it a 10-over-match, a 20-over, or even a Test match. If I stay in the wicket for, say, about 30 minutes, I want to make the most of it and score maximum runs possible. You never know when you get out; try to score as much possible before that.

A bowler will always say it's a batsman's game.

Bowlers have to accept they will go for runs sometimes.

Of course, every batsman gets out. I know that. It is almost inevitable that no matter what you do, you will get out at some point or the other.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

I am a middle-order batsman. Delivering a 100-crore hit each time is the job of the opening batsman. I will come, do my job to the best of my abilities and leave the rest to my audience.

I love hitting those big sixes.

Runs are important, don't get me wrong, but it will be wickets that I will be judged on.

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers to get them out or contain the runs.

Running-between-the-wickets is the ability to convert ones into twos, twos into threes, and threes into fours. And to reach the wickets on time.

Sometimes what happens is you're not getting wickets; you're going for runs. You just want to get away.

I always believe I will take wickets.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

I kept saying, "Stop me now. It's going to my head." I got some photos. Really, I did! It's not my noblest sexual self in these moments, but I want to have fun. I want to undress. I get off my leash to go out and perform. Some other writers are just discomforted by the way I behave in public. Because they're loath to perform.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

Every production must resemble its author.