I think it’s important to be extremely proud of one’s origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
I’m proud of myself. I like the way I’m made.
Of course I’m going to marry, but I don’t know when.
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.
When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it’s the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
I’m glad I’m a strong person.
I definitely need to date someone who is calm.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don’t really have is also very American in a way.
As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
I love going into a country and just blending.
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.
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 think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
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 am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.
I like working on big budget films.
Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was a huge no-no.