Yes, I have had more commercial success in Malayalam but that doesn't mean I can't do with more in Tamil.

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

The only philosophy that I'm not confused about in life is love.

Malayalam actress Ann Augustine, director V K Prakash, writer Jayaprakah Kulur and I have planned to produce quality dramas and to take it to a wide range of audience. We are making some popular works into stage plays.

I have acted in 20 films in various languages and won 13 awards for my acting skills.

I am not a good actor. There is much more to do and learn.

I am comfortable doing glamorous roles and have no qualms going nude if the character demands it.

In any language, I would like to do my best!

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

I am not revolutionary or experimental, but I am curious and love to explore and indulge in life.

Cinema is a male-dominated bastion and one has to be patient.

I had a smooth take-off in Malayalam, I would like to explore more and take up films that are different in Tamil.

I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.

In spite of its relatively nascent rise in popularity, tea joints across the country are romanticized, quite like beer pubs in the West.

Anger, pain and a tinge of joy are the recursive emotions I have been waking up to ever since I read reports on how Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed women in Hollywood for years. Some of these women are actors I have been longing to co-star with even if they reside in another part of the globe.

It has been a fairy tale for an outsider, bouncing from one film set to another, choosing my films as assertively as those films chose me. And through this journey I have not once faced the dreaded syndrome of the 'casting couch.'

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.

When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.

I'd rather be on my own than be with a violent man.

I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.

I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

I enjoy being a girl.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.

Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.

I feel curious about every situation I'm in.