“Success is the best revenge. I always feel women should answer back either with their sarcasm or success.”

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 ache and long and feel in a language older than ours; one without words or phrases, consisting only of melancholy.

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.

When you make feeling good a priority, that magnificent frequency will radiate and touch everyone close to you.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.