Uday Kotak Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
-
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
-
Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
-
I was an expert horseman.
-
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
-
Self-doubt kills talent.
-
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
-
Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
-
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
-
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
-
The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
-
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
-
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
-
I can't do any competitive sport myself!
-
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
-
When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
-
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
-
I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.
-
When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
-
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
-
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
-
All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
-
We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.
-
Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.
