100 Quotes by Abhay Deol

I grew a very early distaste for fame and glamour because I saw what the spotlight and attention can do to you as a family, so to speak.

I always try to do middle-of-the-road cinema.

As long as it excites me, I am game for it.

I was termed 'choosy' because when an actor decides to go against the wind and takes on only non-formula films, he is not left with much choice.

We have 5000-year-old history which is now almost a part of our DNA. How do you break that? America, for example, doesn't have that history behind it. It romanticizes rebellion. We look down upon rebellion. It's an insult. To think out-of-the-box is looked down upon here.

I realized that I need to protect my films because the director will move on, the producer will move on too, but as an actor I will be considered a flop if things will not work.

When there is stuff being written about your family and people ask you questions which are very personal in nature, it makes you defensive and almost makes you angry.

I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.

As a teenager, I used to dress up like a hippie. My clothes weren't posh.