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

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

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 am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

Everybody comes up with this term lucky-"Oh, she's so lucky." Even though I was lucky, I had a lot of struggle before that. I said I was going to give up everything at age 25 and get into event management because nothing was going for me. I used to have a lot of nervous breakdowns.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.