Nana Patekar Quotes

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

I just don't like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

I'm very much of an individual myself, and I do things sometimes that the next person probably won't, or wouldn't, do because they're not me.

I've got to do it my way. I can't compromise and be someone else.

I'm a little bit more proud of Solange. She chose to do it her way. Because in the beginning, we wanted to mold her into this pop star, and that is not who she is. And we were wrong. I was wrong, the record labels were wrong... She wanted to do it her own way, and she did.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I have to believe that I know what's best for me. For instance, I choose all my songs. I never record anything I don't want to record. No one tells me what concerts to do.