Freida Pinto Quotes

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.'

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

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.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I'm a human being before anything else.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

I love going into a country and just blending.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

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.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

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.

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

I went to an all-girls' Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, 'Mum, that's it - I need to go where there are some boys.'

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

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.

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.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.