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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 definitely need to date someone who is calm. "

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

" 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 feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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 love going into a country and just blending. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "