As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

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.

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.

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

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.