Quotes from Abhay Deol

I always pick characters where it's not his muscles or dance skills that help him, because not all of us can look like that. I am more like someone who'd beat up ten guys, not with his muscles, but his strategy.

The thing about action films is that they are high on drama in terms of action sequences, have songs and other things, but content is secondary.

I like films that are edgy, provocative, non-formula and original.

We all have to find a cause we believe in and pursue it. Sometimes it may cost you your job, your personal life, your love life, etc.

Beat up 10 guys, win the girl, and yet you are supposed to be a normal human being. I don't mind doing that as a superhero but not as a real person!

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.

People don't think of genres anymore. The script is all that matters. And as long as it appeals to my sensibilities as an actor-producer, I'm on.

I don't even know if I'd get married. Time will tell.

I may or may not get married but I will settle down in a live-in.

I have family in America and I lived with them for a while. Every few years, I feel the need to disassociate myself from what I do. It really helps the actor within me.

Larger-than-life roles have never excited me. I'd rather play someone real who goes through obstacles and becomes a hero.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that... it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.

We have 5000-year-old history which is now almost a part of our DNA. How do you break that? America, for example, doesn't have that history behind it. It romanticizes rebellion. We look down upon rebellion. It's an insult. To think out-of-the-box is looked down upon here.

I'm not cut out to play a filmi hero. I don't look like a hero.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

It was really good working with Paresh Rawal. I was nervous at first because he is such a big star and I love his performances, but the initial nervousness went away once I got to know him. He is a very simple and hardworking man.

If I look at Dad's earlier work - 'Bandini,' 'Satyakam,' 'Chupke Chupke,' 'Jeevan Mrityu' - and then his later work, I realize that when something works, the industry doesn't want you to do anything else. They just typecast and milk you.

I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is - having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame.

I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.