Courtney Hadwin Quotes

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

I've been on 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa,' and I know it does wonders for your career.

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

There's no business like show business.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Nobody owns me or my music.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.

The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

Sometimes I believe that the reason I have been able to do such exemplary work on the screen is because this is the only place I can be free, neither censured nor judged.

I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

The one thing that concerts have done for me is given me the opportunity to get back to sort of do songs that I want to do. It's about enjoying yourself.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.