When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.
I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
I'm the kind of person that, if someone says, 'Oh yeah, you can't do that,' I want to then go do it.
I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.
Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs.
People do the eye test and underestimate me, so I do play with a chip on my shoulder.
You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.
Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me.
We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.
We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
Always being an underdog, always being the player or the person nobody really knew, that always kept a chip on my shoulder.
I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.
I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me.
