“I don't want to win any brownie points for giving good copy to the press. I've been extremely dignified and well-behaved while dealing with journalists. So many journalists who have interacted with me have come away pleasantly surprised.”
“Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.”
“We'll cross the bridge when we reach it, ... But yeah. We - let's see. We'll work on the story, work on the scene. I'll work on the part and, and let's see.”
“I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.”
“People just came in throngs and stood around. It was very overwhelming for my co-stars.”
“But I have made no conscious effort to look battered and bruised. It is just the way one feels when one is put in a certain traumatic situation.”
“I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.”
“I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.”
“I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.”
“Okay, let's take statistics. How many interviews have I given you in the last six years? Just five or six? Doesn't that say something? I hate to sound immodest, but this dates back to my personality since the age of 13. I've always got attention, which at times has been quite unwarranted.”
“Professionally, I'm on a roll. I have no doubts about the way my career has been going. I've never felt the need to name-drop or align myself with a particular project just to stay in the news. Regrettably, I've had to dissociate myself from quite a few projects.”
“I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.”
“Do I look like a masochist or the sort who'd go through physical or verbal abuse? A year after my accident... when I fell of the stairs, I'm still being asked if I was physically abused. It saddens me that I'm being portrayed as this battered woman.”
“I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.”
“Someone said to me this week that you are a Greek goddess with the soul of an Indian. What is the finest complement you have ever received? The one that touched you the most,”
“Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and it's touching. People would see that and acknowledge it.”
“That's for the autobiography,”
“Alright God, I get the message. Go with the flow.”
“Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.”
“People just came in throngs and stood around, ... It was very overwhelming for my co-stars.”
“Unfortunately my personal involvement in some of my projects is being misconstrued as high-handedness.”
Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.”
“My family is my strength and my weakness.”
“the most beautiful woman in the world.”
“It's a wonderfully told story, ... I look for work that is meaningful and where I can be able to contribute to tell a story.”
“for me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn't even educated in India because of the way I'd speak. And they'd be like, 'Have you studied in India? Do you actually speak English out there?' and, I was like, 'This is so interesting that so many people know so little about my country.' and this is exactly what I wanted to do when I set out on this little mission in my head.”
"I'm making no effort to work in Hollywood."
"I don't know why there's so much noise about a kiss or a passionate scene that I have done. The script demanded it!"
"Salman Khan's like a baby. We're always sparring on the sets. If he gives me attitude, I give him loads of it in return."
"I'm not a tease. I don't go around fluttering my eyelashes and wrapping men around my little finger."
"I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise."
"I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important."
"I have been a part of the media glare since 1992. And today there are so many channels, so much more media that you don't know what stray comment is coming from where."
"I am an emotional person off-screen and would hate to hurt or snub someone."
"I definitely don't have a chip on my shoulder."
"I believe that as an actress all my fears and phobias exist till I sign on the dotted line for a film."
"It's strange that Rakesh Roshan thinks I look older than Hrithik. In fact, he's approached me for all his home productions."
"My first priority now is work. I have achieved a bit of what I wanted to do, as an actress. Now it's my time to grow as an artiste and do good quality work."
"I have openly told David Dhawan that his film is like a vacation for me, a paid holiday."
"I've never wanted to be the flavour of the month. I'd rather be known as a sincere professional. It's never been important for me to be newsmaker or a dial-a quote wonder. That's not my deal at all."
"If 100 people tommorow say that the sky is fuschia pink and theorise about it in the papers, someone's actually going to believe that the sky is pink."
"My family is my strength and my weakness."
"Okay, let's take statistics. How many interviews have I given you in the last six years? Just five or six? Doesn't that say something? I hate to sound immodest, but this dates back to my personality since the age of 13. I've always got attention, which at times has been quite unwarranted."
"Professionally, I'm on a roll. I have no doubts about the way my career has been going. I've never felt the need to name-drop or align myself with a particular project just to stay in the news. Regrettably, I've had to dissociate myself from quite a few projects."
"That's for the autobiography."
"Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and it's touching. People would see that and acknowledge it."
"Unfortunately my personal involvement in some of my projects is being misconstrued as high-handedness."
"With the end of this dream-like period of a month with such special beautiful girls (many of whom have remained friends), began my life as Miss World."
"I was a professional model when I came to represent my country on an international platform along with 86 other young girls from countries all over the world. And what more could one ask for than an audience with President Mandela himself, a man deservedly admired and respected the world over for his contributions towards humanity."
"My world travels included many countries, each one being special, unique and memorable in its own way, attending glamourous evenings in France and Germany, or raising funds in London for the women and children in Bosnia, fashion shoots and shows in Amsterdam, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and visits to Houston, Jamaica and exotic countries like Bermuda and South Africa was a treat, attending a peace conference in Sri Lanka and the Telethon in Iowa through Variety International."
"The year (1994) also broadened my horizons in every sense, helping me to truly break free of the barriers set up by man, of nationalities, gender, age and status, and helped me evolve as a person."
"It has undoubtedly opened doors to many opportunities, but it has also given me tremendous confidence as this year has brought me closer in touch with myself. This has given me a clearer perspective, as I now look upon life as a world-person, and I am glad to be part of the Family, created solely by an experience like the Miss World Contest."
"Do not pretend - Be"
"Do not promise - Act"
"Do not just dream - Realise it!"
"I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers."
"Indian cinema has been delivering a certain aesthetic to its audience very successfully for years and I can say without any shame that I love song and dance."
"I'd hate to see that disappear and as an artist I am happiest to put my all into an art form, as you do with song and dance."
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