“I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.”

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven’t been brought up to create havoc in other people’s homes.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.

I have always been in a relationship. I don’t remember the time when I wasn’t in one

It’s a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven’t manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.

Heroine’ is about a declining and imbalanced superstar – a very brave and bold role. I wanted to test whether I could carry a role like this. I have given 200 per cent to this role. She’s a very complex character, very aggressive, manipulative and bold, yet she’s very fragile.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say you are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera. I reply, I can’t help it; it’s what got me where I am.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that’s the best way for me at least.

You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won’t filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it’s like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Ek Main Aur Ek Tu was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

As was his language so was his life.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.