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.

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

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

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

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.

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

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.