I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I don't want to change the world; I want to evolve myself.

When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

When I look at my audience, I think life has been kind.

On one hand, I want to be successful and give my best to everything I do, but I don't want to be too consumed by anything.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

Earlier, I was traveling all over the world. Then I got married. Everyone presumed I had lost interest in my career. That was not true.

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

Yes, I tend to be self-critical at times. This is because during my cancer period - while I was going through the whole process of treatment - I had time to reflect.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

Some directors are like poets.

I think when an actress is good, roles in mid-forties is a great thing.

We tend to not value anything that we get for free.

I have done my share of looking glamorous on-screen in many films.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

Women have started speaking their minds, and men have graciously started accepting that. I love this.

I don't miss what has passed. I am enjoying the present. I am not one of those people who live in the past.

I believe in all the secular values that Indian democracy is famous for.