'Pink' is the turning point in my career. It just changed everything for me overnight.

After 'Pink,' I wanted to do something that would challenge me further as an actor.

No one has the right to dirty someone's personal space in any which way.

I really invest a lot... physically and emotionally on my work.

A lot of college kids are my fan following.

Lot of people know very early what they want, but I didn't know I wanted acting.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

I won't say there aren't 'smart' roles for women, but the variety is limited. I feel the real representation is not widely available in Bollywood.

As an actor, you break stereotypes all the time.

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film like 'Pink.'

It's tough making people laugh, as we have so much going on in our lives. We forget to see humour as part of everything. The same thing translates on screen, too.

Even writing a script which will be funny is not easy. To make the script come to life and make the audience laugh, I will call myself more of an actor if I am able to do that.

Every time I meet someone, they talk about 'Shaitan.'

It is true that no matter how good your film is, you get judged purely on the basis of how well it does at the box office.

You will not find outsiders getting main, important roles in big films. The difficult part is to meet the right people.

I do feel that I have the capacity to carry a full film on my shoulder.

It feels great to be given a protagonist role.

I don't choose scripts with the intent to get an award.

I am an actress, so my fans or the large audience should look at me as an actress on screen and love or hate me based on my performance.

I prefer eight hours of sound sleep at night. But on days when I can't, I try not to fuss about it and keep taking power naps through the day.

I prefer complete darkness while sleeping at my house. If I'm staying in a hotel, I keep the lights on.

When I dont have work to talk about, I dont need to be in the headlines.

I dont feel the need to be seen and heard all the time.

I like to read and watch a lot of movies.

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It's one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

I don't think people know what freedom of expression really means.

There are so many people, organisations, parities, religions. Whatever you try, someone or the other will be offended.

In theatre, you rehearse for months and then perform. That way, you're totally in-sync with your character, the other characters, and the story.

I can't do TV; I think I'll die as an actor first and then as a person.

I think, since the beginning, I have been attracted to unconventional films.

I like to keep breaking the typecast and cliches.

I do not make an effort to promote myself as a brand. I just focus on making the right choices that feel right to me as an actor.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.

I love yoga and also work out a lot in the gym.

I follow Ayurveda, but above everything, I believe in being healthy mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Whatever I read about Emergency as a part and process of my film, I can say, as a citizen of a democratic country called India, I am certainly not 'for' Emergency, a decision that snatched away the normalcy of human life for 21 months.

We were a Doordarshan household... with a curfew. So after lights out at 10 P.M., we could barely keep up with the latest films of the time. So even thinking about becoming an actress was unfathomable.

It took me two years to just get my first shoot - for Shanti Amla Hair oil.

My true satisfaction came when my parents told me that someone had seen me on TV and congratulated them.

Having worked with Amitabh Bachchan was an exhilarating as well a great learning experience.

It's high time subjects like sex, and everything that it includes, are normalised.

People have to be pushed out of their comfort zones to be able to see things for what they are.

It will be great to live in a world where we don't discuss sex anymore because we have managed to go beyond it. And then we can focus on more important things.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

I am not destructive. I cannot do something for my own pleasure that hurts someone else.

Playing a superhero isn't interesting because then you personify perfection, which is boring!