When somebody else calls you exotic, exotic is a box - it's the stereotype of snake charmers and face jewelry. You're just that stereotype. But I don't get offended anymore. I used to get offended by things that were said to me, or how I was seen. Now I educate. If I get pissed off, I'll educate in a sassy way. Other times I educate in a Gandhi-like way. You know - I have my moods.

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

I was also told some years ago that I shouldn't 'waste my time' with female-centric films because the audience was not ready for it.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

After reaching season two on TV series, having done a film, and receiving acknowledgment in America, I feel like now whatever I do will be on me. My choices will be mine; my disappointments will be mine.