Actress

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

By virtue of my job, I'm traveling. You get to spend very little time with your family. We hardly get to meet each other except on the one odd day we really get to spend time, have dinner together. And that's rare, and we cherish it.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.

Weight gain can happen at any point in time, and it is something that you are dealing with anyway, and it is OK. It is ridiculous to have this dictate your very being because I have always said that it is not the outside that defines who you are.

I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

What's blessed about my life is that I have been able to connect with the global audience on a regular basis. I am thankful for everybody's love, and I reciprocate that, but I also have to deliver on every occasion.

I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.