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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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 like working on big budget films. "

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" I definitely need to date someone who is calm. "

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

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

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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.' "

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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. "

" 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. "