Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

Neither do I have the time or the luxury of having a relationship. I don't want to get into fights with someone because I have no time for him.

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with...

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close...

We boast about Pakistan. We say Pakistan is this and that. But when you go out of the country and the way we are checked, I can't tell you. I feel so humiliated the way I am frisked.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has been an important person in my life.

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less...

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just...

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not...

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of...