“I don’t feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.”

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

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.

Tone matters more than words.

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.

We will never reach an age in life where there is nothing to learn.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.

If youth knew; if age could.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Life is meant to be lived to the fullest, no matter your age.

People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages.