Varun Sharma Quotes

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

I have been getting some offers of films. But more than films, I have been getting offers for serials which I have obviously declined.

I was offered daily soaps in the past but that was something I did not want to take up.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do anymore TV shows.

After I left 'Laverne & Shirley,' I got a ton of offers to play the goofy guy next door, and there were a couple of series that I was offered that turned out to be successful series, but it was too close to what I'd done on my series, and I was really glad I didn't take it.

I want to get into some television. There might be a perception about me being only a movie actor, you know, and there's this whole new sort of frontier opening up in that medium.

Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.

I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

Not every model wants to be an actress.

I had told my agents that I didn't want to do television. I can't believe I had that gall, looking back on it. I would never condescend to do TV, and then 'Taxi' called up for a guest spot in the first season. And my common sense kind of took over, I guess.

I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.

I've always tried to have a pretty discerning eye with the roles that I've picked, which is maybe why it seems like I take breaks, but really, they're not breaks. It's just that there's not as much out there as one would hope. I'm lucky enough to be able to be choosy sometimes.

Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, you name it - I'm interested. I'm free. I'm looking for acting work. At the same time, you have to find a role you're right for, and then there's a slew of other actresses. That's why I will pursue more directing. It's like, who needs a boss? I'm right here.

I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

I did audition a lot. One's agent is keen to get you into film and TV because there's more money. I was always getting myself into commitments to theatre companies.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

I think that one of the things I'd learned from being so attentive to the careers of the people I've admired is the fact that they would say 'no' a lot. Early on, I took that as a cue to only work on things that I knew I would be passionate about.

I've been acting since I was 15 years old professionally, and I've never been asked on the 'TODAY' show or anything like that. And now here I am on the 'TODAY' show, it's bizarre!

I think, quite frankly, I have been on TV too much, but part of it is necessity, and part of it's ability.

Being in New York for 10 days during the World Series and appearing on a bunch of shows, I felt like it was a trial run to have more of a studio presence. The more consistently I started to do it, the more I grew to love it. It allows me to push baseball ideas and content in a bunch of different places.

People very rarely know my real name but recognise me as characters from my shows, such as 'Last Tango In Halifax.'

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any.

I've been in so many series, or almost-series, that I can't even count them all.