Dean Jones Quotes

I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

I don't look at things goin', 'Oh, is this gonna make me rich? Is this gonna make me a star? Am I gonna win awards?' If all that stuff happens, great. Who cares? I still have to wake up in the morning and go to work and be happy to do it.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.