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 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’d like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I’d like to face.
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there’s also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.
I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.
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.
I think it’s important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
There’s one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.
I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, ‘Who is she?’ But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.
It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It’s almost like a revolution, in a way.
I actually didn’t mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like ‘Gone With the Wind.’ And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there’s something so absolutely romantic about it.
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 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’ve never told anyone this before, but I’m an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don’t do it I can’t sleep.
I’m a human being before anything else.
Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
I wouldn’t want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.