Vaani Kapoor Quotes

Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

Failures in film do not mean much to me because at the end of the day, I am successful in my life.

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

To be honest, my first film Akhil' was a disaster and to come out of the negativity it brought, it took a lot of time.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

There is no success without failure and losses.

Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.

I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.