Dulquer Salmaan Quotes

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

I can't think of anything worse than to be stuck in something that I've already lost interest in.

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

I want to want to go to work in the morning.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.

If somebody goes, 'You should go to 135,' my heart's just not into it.

I'm not dedicated to the game at all.

To be honest, I am not really excited by most of the offers I get.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

I hated repeating myself. The last films I've done - not once did I ever have the feeling that I was dialing it in.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.