I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

If a girl wears a shirt and a skirt, does she become more sensuous? I think a girl in a sari is more sensuous than a girl in a skirt. In my opinion, a wet sari is the most sensuous.

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.

You're born single, you die single, but why not being in a relationship is some special 'single' status, I don't understand. Life is less stress being single, I have to admit.

You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

These are NOT times for dramatization and talking, but meditation and praying.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

I don't feel like I have to be the nice girl.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.