Deepika Padukone Quotes
My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Women are sacred.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different.
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I'm a huge art buff.
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I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more 'real' and charming when the characters aren't perfect. It's the difference between anything that's built by a computer and machine versus the same thing being made by hand.
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I'm very passionate, and I care about the people that are around me.
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Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.
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My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.
