I was really proud to be part of this project, in a way to distance people from what is happening right now and take them back to a time and show them how this has not changed, we're still somewhat stuck in the same rut. We keep making a little bit of progress, but fundamentally we keep faltering at the same point over and over again.

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Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

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Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

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media fans home

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

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courses knows

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

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In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

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home people thinking

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.'

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I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

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

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skins light dark

I feel that all of us can contribute something, and it doesn't have to be money. It can just be service or talent.

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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.

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might people thinking

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.

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doctors somewhere-else order

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

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I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

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doubt thinking

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.

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song reality thinking

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

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style actors directors

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.

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ethnicity people interesting

So many people giving you so many opinions about how you look. It's hard for me to gauge what people are sometimes getting at. This brings up my suspicious side. I feel you just have to be confident with yourself. I feel topics like, "Oh, she looks beautiful today" or "She looks a mess today without her makeup"-that's always going to come my way, so I just think it's all about self-confidence.

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makeup beautiful thinking

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

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gone sound wind

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

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

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