Hindi cinema hasn't moved at all in terms of roles for actresses beyond 18 years.
I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.
It takes me some time to get into what I am doing - since I am not a trained actor, I don't have that skill. I have to think of what I am doing and how it comes through.
I am a very lazy person.
I think Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Ranveer Singh are doing a fabulous job.
Akshay Kumar is more than a son to me. What I love about him is that there is never a dull moment with him. He is always up to some nonsense.
We used to take two years to complete a film, and sometimes, we used to be told on the sets that the scenes are still being written. Everything today is pre-planned.
God has been very kind to me.
I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.
The biggest high for me was to marry Rajesh Khanna. That was a high, and I don't think my success was as much of a high as getting married to this superstar. I used to be a big fan of his; it was dream come true.
People feel I look younger than my age. I don't feel that way.
There aren't enough good scripts.
Every life is special.
I was 16 when I got married, and I must say he was not a normal man but a very special man. There are so many things I want to say about him, but one thing which strikes me is that he had a DNA of a superstar.
Nobody knows the man behind Rajesh Khanna, because that never existed. In his last few days, he had told me, 'Pack up, show is over.'
I have done enough, and I am not dissatisfied with the body of work that I have done.
There is no role that I look forward to.
I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.
I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions.
I don't want to push myself and am happy doing one to two films a year.
