“When an individual stands against the government and wins, it’s not the victory of the individual but it’s the victory of the democracy.”

I was treated like a dog by the industry people.

I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

Mantras are a very good technique to enhance your vibration and energy immediately.

Sick and tired of riots and blood.

Thank those who gave you courage and thank those who laughed at your broken dreams.

Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

I really don’t want to be known as a fashionista. I’d like to be someone more than that.

Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.

I’m my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?

Who is fit is a hit.

I am not ashamed of anything – not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

Hits and flops are overrated.

There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.

I realised fashion is nothing but freedom of expression.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.