I have learned so much from India: for instance, the use of aloe vera, which I use, and I find it sad when I see certain arts of oiling slowly fading away.

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.

You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

With Pakistan being in my blood, I would certainly look at opportunities to travel there.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

Too many members of Congress believe they can solve all economic problems, cure all social ills, and bring about worldwide peace and prosperity simply by creating new federal programs.

I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.