“I love and really respect strong women. I’m obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.”

If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren’t intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

If you’re always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that’s happening in front of you.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don’t know why!

If you have your eye set on somebody, don’t beat around the bush.

Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

I don’t like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like ‘The Grudge’, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I’m becoming more adventurous.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I’ll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it’s nice being able to take pictures of it.

I’m not good with catty girls. I’m too laid-back.

I have three closets in my bedroom.

I don’t think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

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.

While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not ‘hot and happening.’

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

What I hate the most. Not everyone in the industry wants to see me win. I proved to everyone that I am better than them and the most important thing is to be here.

Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?