Quotes About Perseverance

I am an outsider. I was never offered the kind of roles where I could play the glamorous diva, because there are already so many of them doing it - and doing it well. So I had to bring to the table much more than just looking good.

I think, as an outsider, you are ready to deal with whatever comes your way.

A lot of people know that how I came to become an actor, but not many people know that how hard it was for me in those initial years. Being an outsider, I had no insight about the ways of the craft.

I'm not trying to say that the work I have done in the past is path-breaking, but I have definitely tried to pick the best from what I was offered and being an outsider with no one to guide me I think I have done well.

When you are an outsider, no one is ready to meet you or listen to you. People have even said that there are thousands of Sonu Soods out there, and they don't have time to cater to each one of them.

I have been around for 33 years and I don't have a filmy background. I don't know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.

I was doing drama and I wasn't sporty or cool I think there's definitely something about being an outsider and getting into the industry - maybe it's because you have something to prove?

Do I wish I had it easier being an outsider in the industry? Yes, of course, I wish had it easier. Why would we choose the difficult path. But I would not want to sit and talk about it and get affected about it. I would rather just accept it.

To the outsider or the fans, they don't understand that if you're independent and sell 30,000 or 50,000 records independently, that's amazing for you.

Finish people have not been very successful at all. We are not doing very well in sport. We are outsiders in the world.

Outsiders don't get it easy. I was not even expecting to get a film.

From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.

I can't put on an act, so I try to be one of the best fighters so at least I get paid. Let's say Michael Bisping, he wasn't that great. He was losing, winning, but he was making a lot of money, and that was because he was outspoken and from the U.K. But not everyone can be like that. So, I tried to be the best I could.

I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.

'Bruce Lee' is the fastest film in my career. But the quality is also very high. The last song was shot continuously for 24 hours. We worked like robots for that song, but the quality is outstanding.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Mind over mattress.

There's always people saying that rock is dead, rock is over. People are always out to kill rock and roll.

When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to 'get over it,' how to just 'get to the other side.'

I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

When the game is over it is really just beginning.