2008 was a good year as 'Gaja' was a hit.

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly...

I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often...

I didn't really feel like a girly girl. I didn't want to wear boob tubes and flared trousers and disco clothes. Then when punk came along it was like, 'Oh great, I can wear ripped jeans and manky...

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.

It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or...

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

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 never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

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.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

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.