Vicky Kaushal Quotes

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?'

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel that my father, had he lived longer, might have been a touch disapproving of some of my career - I think he might have tutted a bit at 'Men Behaving Badly.'

The reason immigrants come to America is to provide their kids with opportunities, but when they say 'opportunity,' they mean a prestigious job and career. When I had the epiphany that I could do music and sustain myself, they were like, 'OK, son, we need to talk to you.'

I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music. You have to be a doctor, a lawyer, engineer. Something that's going to do something for this world. Music doesn't do anything.' And I had to fight that, his passion, and fight the society that I was from.

As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn't get into music to be a businessman.

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

I come from a family of doctors and engineers, and everyone expected me to take up a similar career. That was the most natural thing to do!

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

Everyone always says, 'You must have always wanted to be just like your dad.' But my dad's career had nothing to do with my journey.