Lillete Quotes

#1. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I believe divinity is within us.

Lillete Dubey

#3. India's a fascinating country. It's constantly changing, but there's still a lot of superstition and backwards thinking.

Lillete Dubey

#4. Everything is possible. Anything is possible at any time and at any time in life. That's such an affirmative kind of feeling.

Lillete Dubey

#5. Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. I am not a regular at film festivals.

Lillete Dubey

#7. Baby, I'm the oldest of three boys. I can handle a fist to the face, an elbow to the ribs, even a flying tackle. But a woman's tears? They scare me, straight to the bone.

Samanthe Beck

#8. I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

Lillete Dubey

#9. The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

Umar

#10. My father was the artistic one. At a very young age, my father realised I had a strong voice and made me learn Hindustani vocal. I was five. I have Dad to thank for introducing me to the finer things in life.

Lillete Dubey

#11. I'm always thinking, 'What next,' even while working on one play or shooting for a film.

Lillete Dubey

#12. Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.

Lillete Dubey

#13. Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.

Lillete Dubey

#14. Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.

Lillete Dubey

#15. I was a rebel. I went to Carmel Convent in Delhi where I was a complete rebel. I thought I was 12 going on 18. I wanted to go out with friends older to me, stay out late - my parents were horrified. It was then that we began having our first disagreements.

Lillete Dubey

#16. You are not dead until you are in that grave, so don't close the book. Don't give up.

Lillete Dubey

#17. I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator.
There's prejudice against the horror genre and I think sometimes that's the fault of the authors involved.

Carole Gill

#18. All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.

Lillete Dubey

#19. David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.

David Lipsky

#20. Every teardrop is a waterfall.

Coldplay

#21. What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

C. G. Jung

#22. There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

Lillete Dubey

#23. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.

Lillete Dubey

#25. On one wall there was a recent watercolour - Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera

Margaret Atwood

#26. A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Lillete Dubey

#27. A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Timothy Carey

#28. I'd have given my right eye to be an astronaut.

Jacqueline Cochran

#29. So many people ask me this, but I tell them I look forward to each day because I love what I do.

Lillete Dubey

#30. I first watched 'Adhe Adhure' in college. I loved it, and it stayed with me ever since. I decided that I would some day direct this play - not in English, but in Hindi.

Lillete Dubey

#31. And a woman whose best day was a day with her family and friends around her doing nothing but talking, laughing and being together.

Kristen Ashley

#32. My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#33. We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.

Lillete Dubey

#34. It is hard to get good actors who also do television, ads and films. Theatre requires six weeks of rehearsal for a play.

Lillete Dubey