Neil Nitin Mukesh Quotes

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

It's not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like 'Nippu,' 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu' and 'Sarostaru' which were really bad. But, 'Veera' and 'Dharuvu' had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my 'flop list.'

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

When a film fails, the lead actor is always blamed for it.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

Whenever I don't get injured, the film is a dud. I didn't bleed on 'Rhinestone.' I didn't bleed on 'Stop! Or My Mom will Shoot.'

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.

'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.

I am an actor. What I am on screen is what matters.

I hope 'Tum Mile' works in the same way as 'Jannat' or else I will be blamed if it does not do well.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

I don't think I could have had a better experience than I did with 'Girlfight.' It was a humbling experience to be so well received. And it was equally humbling to be ripped to pieces with 'Aeon Flux.'

The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.