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

I'm a human being before anything else.

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.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

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.

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