Life is so unpredictable.
To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.
Why categorise crime as a gender issue? Why should a man or woman be more inclined to believe in certain basic values?
You can't stop trusting people just because of a few people.
No one can stop me from living my life the way I want to.
As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.
I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director.
I think one of the biggest myths is that education cannot flourish with regulation. Another myth is that wherever the state sponsors education, it doesn't flourish.
I do not want any policy to be formulated that impedes the spread of education in any fashion.
I know the pros and cons of being absolutely blunt.
I think governance is about giving people an opportunity to engage with you on subjects that you are responsible for, believing in people's capacity to deliver, and allowing them that platform plus project their work.
I think too many obituaries have been written about me.
People understand when you talk to them person to person, at an equal level. I tell them what I can do and what I cannot, and they tell me, 'Didi, we know you don't lie.'
Benefits of demonetisation need to percolate down to entrepreneurs and their enterprises, many of which are outside the ambit of formal economy.
What type of politics is the Congress practising, wherein its leaders commit the sin of looting money meant for the welfare of pregnant women and poor children?
Infrastructure development is a huge challenge for the people of Amethi.
Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.
Legislation has a certain jurisdiction. It can't change mindsets and hearts.
I have never lived off my family name.
I want to categorically say that whatever I am, I have made a space for myself in Indian politics and media out of my own perseverance and hard work.
