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

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.

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

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

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.

The century's getting old and stale

Ideal online reputation isn't something that can be earned by accident.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

My heart has jet lag.

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.