Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.