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I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
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A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.
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I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
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I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
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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.
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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.
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One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
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As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
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All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
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There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love going into a country and just blending.
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I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
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I'm a human being before anything else.
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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.
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If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
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I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.
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I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
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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.
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Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
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Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
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Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.