Quotes About Evolution

The tags in this business don't leave you... When I was a VJ, they called me VJ-turned-actor, then I turned into a comedian, and now I am a serious actor.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of those alternative comedians have ended up being mainstream, they know that longevity is about being mainstream.

I am tired of doing stupid comedies. Though comedy has given me the breakthrough in the industry, I constantly feel the need to grow.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

You know it yourself; the comic books are one thing and the movies are another thing. You dont always keep it the same.

I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

India is now changing and regaining its lustre, and it is coming of age.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.

In the not-too-distant future, commerce is just going to be commerce. It won't be online commerce or offline commerce. It's just going to be commerce. And that will happen because of the phone.

Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.

I've come a long way from my first commercials.

Because I was happy in my space, I was doing commercials, masala films, love stories... But somewhere as an actor I wanted to push myself to reach a large audience and play a different role.

Football's become more physical. I would have liked to have been born 10 or 20 years earlier to enjoy football with the same commitment and desire but without the toughness it has now.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

Football has evolved, you can't compare with the past.