“Tone matters more than words.”

I don’t seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don’t want to be anybody’s role model.

If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.

No one can guarantee success of a film.

Learning should never stop.

Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I’m not.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before ‘Queen,’ but now things have changed a lot.

I write poems, I meditate. I don’t live up to people’s expectations. I don’t do the conventional cool things – I know I am the coolest person.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren’t too supportive of my career choices.

Many people are insecure of many people.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

Money can’t buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

It is important to give talent their due. And if celebrities are struggling with personal and mental health issues, the media should try and emphasize with them, rather than making it difficult for them.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

Nature has a way of healing us and everything has a silver lining, we need to look for it!

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.