Quotes

Work is hard, but being a mom is harder.

Thank goodness for IMDB.

I know what it's like to do whatever you need to do to make sure that your kids are happy and well and succeed.

I am first-generation American, so I didn't grow up in the South or have any relatives who were slaves. My forefathers were colonized.

I'm a bit of a wuss. I'll even watch, like, a Tom Cruise 'Jack Reacher' movie where, I mean, there's a lot of action, but the violence is no real violence, but I still hide my face because there might be violence.

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I'm a working actor, and I'm really appreciative to be a working actor, but it's another level when you're a working actor with the likes of Sarah Paulson and Angela Bassett.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

I used to hate my behind, like every other black girl. I hated my behind. I hated my hair. I hated my nose because no one said it was beautiful.

I thought, because of 'The 100' and 'Apocalypse,' that I knew everything about what life after an apocalypse would be - but Ryan Murphy and the writers of 'American Horror Story' have shown a whole other side of an apocalypse.

All I wanted was to be an actor and have a happy family, and I did it. I still remember when I was doing shows in my parents' living room, and everyone had to watch me.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

I feel blessed to be playing a character called Rajinikanth on screen. This is our tribute to the superstar.

I have always felt romantic about Kannada because I started my career here.

I felt the script of 'Shivajinagara' was perfect as my character is that of a good guy with shades of grey.

There were some inquiries after I bagged 'Shivajinagara.' I have consciously decided to wait till the film releases as I want to do similar roles.

I started with veteran K. Balachander sir, who called me for his series 'Anni.' He promised me that he would make sure that I get good film offers as well.

I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.

Nobody would dare to show Rajini sir in bad light through a film.

My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.

Delhi is fabulous - the roads, greenery, the monuments!

If people view wearing bikini as a problem, then dirt is in their mind and not in mine.

For me, Hyderabad was all about summer holidays, rasam rice, spicy pickles, and more.

I like to look effortlessly beautiful.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.