Top 20 Rat Race Quotes

A rat race is for rats. We’re not rats. We’re human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

It’s a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

I am no longer interested in the rat race and I want to be around in a meaningful way.

There is immense pressure of being caught in the rat race. At such times, I’m glad I have just one child.

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It’s more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don’t keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don’t want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

I simply don’t want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.

I am never embarrassed to relax. I am not part of any rat race. I am very happy to be by myself.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

I’m not in any rat race. This allows me to take up roles that are traditionally considered risky for a heroine to essay.

I wouldn’t mind the rat race – if the rats would lose once in a while.

We’re not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race. We’re designed to be in community, to volunteer, to vote, to raise our kids. And I think the more inputs and investments we can give in people to do those things, the better off we are as a community.

From getting good grades in school, to thinking about getting a good career and settling down, we all have been running a rat race. We always thought that we were doing it for ourselves but actually we were doing it for others. Like, I realized, I never had time for myself.

I do not want to be a part of Hindi cinema’s rat race. But yes, if I get offers and characters which I feel would suit me as well as make some difference to me, I will do a Hindi film.

How many years has it taken people to realize that we are all brothers and sisters and human beings in the human race? I mean how many years does it take people to see that? We’re all in this rat race together!

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

I don’t want to be in any rat race.

The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.