Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" As a musician, I know that it'll take time for me to get to the ranks of an established artiste. Nevertheless, I'm very happy that people are appreciating my music. "

Related Quotes:

" In India, people love turmeric. They make turmeric milk, and sometimes I mix it with some cream or yogurt and turn it into a scrub. You'd be amazed at what it can take off your skin. "

Priyanka Chopra

You

People

Skin

" I'm not even Indian-American: I'm Indian-Indian. Everybody expected me to have henna and a nose pin and talk in an accent like Apu from 'The Simpsons.' I was nervous because I wasn't sure if America was ready for a lead that looked like me. "

Priyanka Chopra

America

Ready

" Justin Timberlake - I'd like to learn a little more about his suit and tie. "

Priyanka Chopra

Learn

Suit

" I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom. "

" If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it. "

" I hate the term 'Bollywood,' because we're not a 'me too' of Hollywood. The Indian film industry is prolific. "

Priyanka Chopra

Because

Film

" I don't believe in being a size 0. I don't believe in starving. Women should totally embrace their curves. "

" I lost my dad two years ago to cancer, and before he died, I asked him to write 'Daddy's Little Girl' on a piece of paper for me. I told him it was for an album. He practiced and practiced and then sent it to me, and I had it tattooed onto my wrist and surprised him with it. He cried when he saw it, happy tears. This way I always carry him with me. "

Priyanka Chopra

Tears

Lost

" The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something. "

Priyanka Chopra

Bring

Television

" One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her. "

Priyanka Chopra

Country

Bag

" I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do. "

" I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me. "

" I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none. "

" I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard. "

" I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are. "

" When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me. "

" I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual. "

" When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot more of us on television, whether it's Mindy Kaling or it's Irrfan Khan or Freida Pinto. You know, I hope, like, little girls across the world can just look at me and say, 'Ah, I want to be that!' Indian or not, it shouldn't matter. "

Priyanka Chopra

World

Hope

" Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling. "

" Guess girls are normally blonde, blue-eyed bombshells. It was nice to be a brunette one. "

" Who doesn't want to be, like, five inches taller whenever they can be? If boys could, they'd be wearing heels. "

" I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema. "

Priyanka Chopra

Good

Love

" As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl. "

Priyanka Chopra

I Am

Loyal

" America has been so welcoming to me. "

" To be a philanthropist, you don't have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you and ask, 'What little bit can I do? Whose life can I touch?' "

" Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place. "

" I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym. "

Priyanka Chopra

Point

Gym

" Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening. "

" I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. "

" After every bath, I make sure to moisturize my entire body. I'm obsessed with Diptyque: people love their candles, but their body products are also amazing. "