Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.

Years ago, I tried my hand at business and incurred huge loss, and my only way out was to do a movie with Mammootty.

If my films don't do well, nobody is going to give me films.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

When a film doesn't do well, people start doubting you as an actor.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

I left Columbia in the mid-'60s. I had a guaranteed contract for, like, $100,000 a year. And I just let it go. And I wasn't a rich man. There were a lot of bad vibes around the whole thing.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.