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

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

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

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

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.

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.'