Taapsee Pannu Quotes

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.

It's harder for someone like a singer to prove they can be an actor because people immediately want to say, 'Oh, he's no good.'

I have played different characters in different films and that versatility has worked to my benefit. I don't have to worry about the top or the bottom slot. My place is made in the industry and it's a wonderful one, believe me.

It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist.

When I went to Impact, it was me proving myself on a daily basis to a lot of different people. I mean, I had matches with Austin Aries, matches with Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode, Drew McIntyre. I mean, I wrestled everyone. During that time, I wasn't just sitting back saying, 'Man, I hope WWE picks me up. I hope they see me. I hope to get back.'

Yes, I'm a personality. I accept that. O.K.? I understand it. But I'm a personality with credentials.

Every time you step on the field you have to reestablish and re-prove yourself.

In addition to trying to do the right thing and obey the law and follow principle, there's a part of the conservative, slash, Republican movement that believes if we just show that we're fair and impeccable, then we will get credit from those who think we're all these horrible things, and maybe they won't hate us as much.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

That's another thing about my father. He made me very conscious of the fact I wasn't very good and I had to prove to him that I was good. And that hung with me, and I always wanted to play golf with him and show him. He said Never, Never tell anyone how good you are. Show them!

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.