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I'm glad I'm a strong person.
I like working on big budget films.
I'm a human being before anything else.
I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.
I think when you have doubts, you just say no.
I definitely need to date someone who is calm.
I love going into a country and just blending.
Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.
I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.
Young women who want an education will not be stopped
I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?
I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.
It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.
The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.
I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.
I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.
There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.
It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.
Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.
I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.
I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.
Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.
I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.
I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.
I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.
I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'
I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.
I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.