Diversifying Quotes

When you're starting out, say yes to everything you can.

I want to do a lot of different things and dive into different worlds.

I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.

I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

I need to focus on other things before I carry on in Bollywood. I can't be doing what I've done in 'Lungi Dance' and now the song 'Party With Bhootnath' with Bachchan over and over again. I've to reinvent myself for Bollywood.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.

I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.

I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

I want to try everything.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

I don't think I am restricting myself to doing only comedy; I am hoping that someone offers me something else.

I always said when I was wrestling that you have tunnel vision because it's all consuming. It's hard to focus on anything else other than what you're doing. When I stepped away from that, I wanted to have my hand in a lot of different pots.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.