Samantha Akkineni Quotes

I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song.

I like success, but I don't believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It's more important to stay in my skin.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

I am incredibly, incredibly fortunate about the opportunities I've had. But at the same time, I've had plenty of opportunities to screw it up, too. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is 'No...' and not feel the need to do everything. It's about doing what rings true to me.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

I don't want to be 'box-office girl,' but I don't want to be 'that indie girl' either.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

I don't want to be viewed as a womaniser or whatever. I don't like going crazy crazy, I like having fun but it's nice to wake up in your own bed, isn't it?

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.

I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.

You definitely need self-belief and confidence, but there is a very fine line between that and arrogance. I would like to think I sit on the other side of that.

I'm like an actor who obnoxiously says he doesn't watch his own TV show. It is extremely rare for me to read my own comics and have asked publishers to please stop sending them to me.

Ego can be a dangerous thing. We all have one but it needs to be contained.

You can't take yourself too seriously with anything.

You can't get too excited about your own medicine.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.