Quotes About Decision

Some say no when others say yes. That's the difficulty with handball.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

I turned down 'Come Dine With Me' because I can't cook.

When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

After directing 'Sanam Re,' I was contemplating what to do - direct or act. I got really good opportunities of direction but I felt that if I have to act then I should do it now.

There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

I'm willing to have two directors on the DuPont board, me being one of them.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

If you disagree with me about a position I have taken, or what I've done, tell me, argue with me, debate. Sometimes, right and good are not that clear; at other times, it is only deliberate and respectful debate that leads us to understand what road we should take.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.