Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes
When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
Quotes to Explore
-
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
-
I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
-
I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
-
After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
-
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
-
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
-
I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
-
Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
-
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
-
My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
-
My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
-
I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
-
I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
-
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
-
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
-
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
-
I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
-
I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
-
It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.
-
The victor belongs to the spoils.
-
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
-
I had both male and female heroes.
-
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
-
When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
