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" 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. "

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

Freida Pinto

You

Important

Actress

" 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 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.' "

" If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place. "

" 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'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. "

" I like working on big budget films. "

Freida Pinto

Working

Big

" Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no. "

" 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 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 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. "

Freida Pinto

Said

You

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I love going into a country and just blending. "

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

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

Freida Pinto

You

Feel

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

Freida Pinto

Indian

Actress

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

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

" I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype. "

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

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

" 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 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. "