Neeraj Kabi Quotes

Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it.

When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.' And I set a goal. I said, 'I'm going to win an award,' because I had never won an award in my entire life.

I'm not going to sit here and say, 'Pity me; I came from modeling.' It's opened a lot of doors. People will take meetings because they've heard the name before. That's an advantage that I have.

In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

There are loads of websites devoted to me.

If my career isn't going that well, I'd rather it flounder than desperately trying to show up on red carpets: 'I'm for hire! Remember me!'

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book deal, and I think it certainly contributes to people's view of me as a person with a sense of humor, which is only helpful in my industry.

For me, Facebook and Twitter was always just a way for me to reach out to the fans of the show, to communicate with my friends who where in the business, and I never felt like I wanted to use it to further my career in some way. I don't know that it has the power or the ability to do that. I just never thought about it in those terms.

To make a name for myself, I feel it's important to do that before I go anywhere else. Impact have given me the platform and the exposure to do that.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

Social media opened up basically every opportunity for me because, traditionally, I wouldn't be thought of as a model.

I've been very fortunate in the work I've been getting.

People make careers off of Instagram. So in that sense, it's really good, and you can put yourself out there and be open.

I have always tried to market myself.

Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

I've been very fortunate throughout my career to fight for the best organizations in the world.

I was never much of a networker.

The best thing I can do is keep advertising myself by winning races.

Obviously I've grown up around YouTubers, people getting millions of hits, but I was never anywhere near that.

If you want to promote me, promote me.

If I want to shoot my daily look, I just put it on Instagram - not on the Web site.

The videos I put on YouTube have expanded my audience beyond what I could have done at just a Hamburger Mary's. People saw the videos, started booking me, and literally 40-plus countries and thousands of gigs later I can basically say that YouTube has bought me a house.