I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
I'm a human being before anything else.
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.
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
I definitely need to date someone who is calm.
I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.
I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.
As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
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 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'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
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 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'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.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
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 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 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.
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.
