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.
I'm glad I'm a strong person.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.
There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.
I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.
I love going into a country and just blending.
I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.
A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.
I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.
Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.
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 like working on big budget films.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
