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" I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college. "

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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. "

" I'm a human being before anything else. "

" 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'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. "

" As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. "

" There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark. "

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

" I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" I like working on big budget films. "

" 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. "

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

" In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 definitely need to date someone who is calm. "

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

" I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin. "

" 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. "

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