I am just a hard-working 23-year-old. When Maxim asked me to be on their cover, I was quite surprised. Of course, I was happy about it.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

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

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again.

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Goodbye," I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.