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" Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be. "

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" When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent. "

" Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable. "

" I'm glad I'm a strong person. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected. "

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" I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face. "

" 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. "

" 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'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 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 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.' "

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" I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way. "

" 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. "

" Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when. "

" Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes. "

" I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features. "

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" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "

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" 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'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving. "