Freida Pinto Quotes

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I love going into a country and just blending.

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.