I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people’s faces, then I think I’ll be successful.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people’s faces, then I think I’ll be successful.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEEvery film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEIt feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEIt’s good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI don’t like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEEverything that creative people think and do is from the heart.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
DEEPIKA PADUKONERelationships or not, I believe that people don’t need to know about my life beyond a certain point.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEWhen you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.
DEEPIKA PADUKONETo me, the mind and body are one. I’m very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I’m in.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEMy parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEI can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEComedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don’t. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
DEEPIKA PADUKONEHaving had a lived experience with mental illness, I understand the importance of emotional wellbeing.
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