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

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 went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

So many people giving you so many opinions about how you look. It's hard for me to gauge what people are sometimes getting at. This brings up my suspicious side. I feel you just have to be confident with yourself. I feel topics like, "Oh, she looks beautiful today" or "She looks a mess today without her makeup"-that's always going to come my way, so I just think it's all about self-confidence.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.