Character Quotes

When you oppose the shaykh, it’s like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. ‘Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?’ He says, ‘So my master will suffer loss.’

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

Naina is one of the most special films & special characters that I’ve played in recent times

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

If I spread myself too thin, I’m not a good actor, I’m not a good mother, and I’m just really high-strung – and everybody hates me.

I am a thespian trapped in a man’s body.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

There is absolutely a side of me that people don’t know. I’m not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That’s totally not me.