Adeel Akhtar Quotes

You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.

The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.

You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.

Every movie is unknown.

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

Each album you make, each body of music, you just never know how the world's going to relate to it.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.