Mahira Khan Quotes

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

I don't know how to measure success. I have been fortunate that I got exciting films to do and work with talented directors who brought out the best in me.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

I've gotten an opportunity to work with a lot of the people I've looked up to over the years, and I feel pretty grateful for it.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached.

I went from sort of trying to get work to all of a sudden being signed up for the next few years on something, and something of this scale with some of the best people in the business involved, acting and directing. It was a dream.