I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

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

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

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

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

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

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.