I wouldn't say that I haven't got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

My parents gave me a strong sense of entitlement. And I use that in a very good way.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

I know that when you do similar kind of films, one after the other, people tend to stereotype and say, 'She is only good at this.'

I make it a point to pick films that tell you a story in an engaging way. I can't compromise on the content. The script has to be substantial and impactful.

I just cannot do a boring film. It has to be interesting with a good character.

It is a challenge to work away from India and with a cast and crew from all over the world. But it's also very gratifying, and you learn so much by just being with them.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.

The film is intended to unite people and not create division in the society. 'Partition' talks about peace and humanity.

Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.

I grew as an actress, and I feel I gained a lot, whenever I have worked with any great director in the past.

As a woman, absolutely, I have had to deal with people making advances at me, but not just people from the business of film industry but people across different professions and different strata. I think it has a lot to do with power; it is not only limited to the film business.

In India and elsewhere in the world, the moment a woman speaks out against harassment, people sort of start making all sorts of character judgments about her, about her morality, about what she was wearing, and all such things, and I think that is not fair.

If a woman is saying something out loud, she is asking for help, and you have no business to character assassinating her. You have to reach out to her and help her and protect her, and I think we need to protect our women, and we need to protect our children.

A lot of issues that we have in the world today rise from the fact that we do not know enough about each other's cultures, that we don't respect each other's origins and there is so much negativity and strife around because we don't know where the other person is coming from.

The very fact that I got to work with Akshay Kumar was special.

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

I don't have any ego, and I will go and audition for parts if I'm offered an interesting script.

I have been told too much - to talk less, to keep my opinions to myself, to not sound intelligent - all this was told to me so that I could fit in. But I never thought I fit in anyway. So if you don't fit in, at least stand out.

I have always been cool and open about my body.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I'm, like, forever a teenage girl in a way. No matter how hard I try not to be, that's just what I am. All I care about is boys and shopping.

I traded all my 'Star Wars' toys for Pee-wee Herman toys. I wonder if I had a crush or him or something? The colors and the way that everything looked so cool or crazy just appealed to me as a young gay in Tucson.

Hunx is kind of his own person that is not really me in my normal life.

I just don't want to be boring.

Gravy Train!!!! started out as a joke where we'd crash parties and be really obnoxious, and then somehow we got somewhat famous, and it was really weird.

I really love 'Hairspray.' I love the idea of this teenage dance show where you have to go through all these competitions to get to the next level.

Being a hairdresser is really fun, especially if you don't work at a stupid rich-lady place. You basically just get paid to hang out and talk with a bunch of cool, weird ladies and help them with their looks.

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that album.

I just find it weird if you're in a band and you don't know how to make it look the way it sounds. You really need to be involved with the entire creative process in order for it to totally work.

I think it's because all our music videos have chubby girls wearing crazy makeup and crazy gay dudes and trannies that are overly stylized and over-the-top. Being compared to John Waters and girl groups isn't a bad thing, though.

Just because I have a sense of humor and use bright colors, people always say it's 'camp.' I'm just doing my thing. I think of it as art.

I like in-person interviews, but I do a lot of interviews over the phone, and it's so boring. The same questions over and over.

My aim was to dismantle this false history that men created punk, because they didn't. And they were certainly never the best at it.

I've tried to stalk Danzig. I've walked by his house on Franklin that looks super haunted and scary, but I've never seen him.

I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.

I really want to make the gayest, gayest album ever.

If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.

Women that hate other women - that's the worst.

I dress kind of flashy.

I'm into the natural look on men.

I don't know why everyone tries to be like everyone else or just tries to make it to the top when they should be themselves and do their own thing.

I love it at our shows when there's the big, tough, punk guys standing next to the weird teenagers and the gay guys. It's so weird, and it's so awesome.

I have so many photos of myself in my room when I was a kid; I had one wall that was all TLC posters that I got free at some record store, then another wall was all Public Enemy, and the last wall was all '90210.'

I wear a lot of wigs and stuff on stage to make my hair look bigger.

There's one side of me that just wants to get up on stage and be punk and go crazy and stuff like that; and there's also this other side of me that's like a grandma - really into arts and crafts.

I think I'm a really sweet guy, kind of shy and nice and stuff.

Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making zines and stuff. I thought I was too punk for art and felt grossed out by white-room galleries and art people.

Beauty school gave me brain damage.