I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

When I was in school, you never saw anyone who looked like us that was on TV. And that was really weird for me because there's so many people of South Asian descent in America - in the world.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me.

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

I've never dated; I've always been in relationships.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Who doesn't want to be, like, five inches taller whenever they can be? If boys could, they'd be wearing heels.

One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her.

After every bath, I make sure to moisturize my entire body. I'm obsessed with Diptyque: people love their candles, but their body products are also amazing.