It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to know how to score.
I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.
If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.
It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
My main lucky number is 9. That was my baseball number in high school. My other lucky number is 3, because that's the one I wore before I got to high school and had to pick a different one.
My talent is numbers.
Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'
Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.
If it's a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.
You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.