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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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 don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching. "

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

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

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" 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. "