Neha Dhupia Quotes

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

If you're following your dreams, you're doing something you love and that you believe in yourself for.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.