Vikram Bhatt Quotes

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

Mentally, I'm really strong, but for maybe the first time in my life, I cried about my career because I thought it was over. When you've been out for a year, and you think it's over, you think completely differently after that. I was just looking on TV, and I wasn't able to train, and in the meantime, I had a son.

The UFC was the black spot in my career and my life.

An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

Everyone has a rock bottom.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people were doing well, and then they went right down, and they made a comeback. It's not that they went anywhere. It's that their fortunes went way down, and then they came back.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it.

I had to go to Hollywood to recharge my career.

I had just come off my third consecutive failed television series. I had sworn off doing TV for a while. I was going to go to New York, sublet an apartment, and find my soul again. Before I got on the plane, my agent sent me the script for 'Psych.' I read it on the plane and realised it had a lot of potential.

Rehab is like a divorce.

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

One loss is not the end of my career.

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

It's good to go down because then you know you have to climb back to your old spot. And you can't be on top and not know that you can only go down.

I was labelled a jinx. No one wanted to work with me. I was home for about six to eight months without any films. I did modeling. In fact, at one point, I contemplated quitting films. That's when director Ameer called me for 'Paruthiveeran' and I cannot thank him enough for it.