Lavrenti Lopes famous quotes

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#New York #Home #Race

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Dedication #Crafts #Admire

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Children #Doctors #Play

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Class #Everyday #India

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Thinking #Play #Community

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
-- Lavrenti Lopes

#Prejudice #Victim #Preference

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.