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" 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. "

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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

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Important

Actress

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

Freida Pinto

Indian

Actress

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I like working on big budget films. "

Freida Pinto

Working

Big

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "