Vir Das Quotes
I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.
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I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.
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When you get drafted this high, you want to prove that you're not a bust, ... You want to prove that it was worth their while.
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
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I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.
