Quotes

Rock and roll is not just music, it is a way of life, it has its own spirit.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

Everyone wants to be happy at the end of the day. If we can pursue what we really want to do, we don't get bored of life.

I love the stage and try to balance it out with movies. If you take the stage away from me, then nothing will be left in my life.

I wish I could direct a movie at some point of my life.

Director Alphonse Putharen came to my life as an angel and transformed my families' lives. That's why we named our home 'Premam.'

Everyone loves a love story. All of us want to be loved. I think 80 per cent of us spend our life chasing it, and only 20 per cent are lucky enough to finally find it.

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

I never thought about positions. All I wanted in life was to play for the country.

As I see my responsibility as BCCI secretary, as a Parliamentarian, life of every Indian is very important to me.

People from all walks of life have benefited from pro-people schemes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.

I tell myself that if I start to listen to these people and start to let them decide how I should behave and what I should do, then this is not my life - it's theirs.

Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means 'serving officers daughters association.' I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.

I understand that ups and downs in life keep wavering, and it's important to understand them and why they happen. So I learn whatever I have to and then move forward.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

If I lead my life according to someone else, I've screwed my life up.

I have never planned things in life. I believe in living life or doing things to the moment.

Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, 'Should I not be myself,' but I won't do that.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

I have done everything in my life very normally. And marriage is definitely there on my agendas in life. But I don't know when will it happen.