Vir Das Quotes

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Drama
  • Boring

• The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Education
  • Stress
  • Student

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Home
  • Man
  • Stop

• When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Young

• With six meats and twelve wines or else without To walk another room...Monsieur and comrade, The soldier is poor without the poet’s lines.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Soldier

• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character-an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • America

• We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National

• I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Children

• I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Door

• As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

  

  Lionel Barber

• With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Good
  • Music

• I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

  

  Kel Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • May

• I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Time

• And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Voice
  • Preparation
  • Requires

• Gender discrimination has had a twofold destructive effect on society. Firstly, it has opened society to slavery; second, all other forms of enslavement have been implemented on the basis of housewifisation.

  

  Abdullah Ocalan
  • Slavery
  • Gender
  • Discrimination

• None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it on screen.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Violence
  • Screen
  • Real World

• There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

  

  Johnathon Schaech
  • Film
  • Role
  • Auditioned

• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Music
  • Accept
  • Clue

• I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

  

  Vir Das
  • Auditioned
  • Torturous
  • Delhi Belly