Pooja Bedi

“I was six months pregnant when my brother died and my daughter was four-months-old when my mother expired. Gradually, I developed an inner resilience as today I believe there is a rainbow at the end of each storm.”

“I keep getting many offers for TV soap operas, and strangely a lot of them are mythological. None seem to be interesting enough or have the budgets that would convince me to accept them.”

“I feel life is not about what happens to you, but about your reactions to what has happened to you.”

“I've been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.”

“Men who wear thongs have to be absolutely confident and have no qualms in flaunting their body.”

“My grandfather was a direct descendent of Guru Nanak, which my father also carried forth.”

“I've ventured into my past life and have experienced it. What I was in the previous life and why I've taken birth in this world, I believe in all of this because I've seen it on my own.”

“I believe in one energy that is benign, loving, warm and nurturing power.”

“But I usually read non-fiction; I love Richard Branson books.”

“I have had relationships that have not worked out in the past, my marriage didn't work out technically in the past but I look back at all my relationships with great love and affection.”

“My perception is that Mr. Bachchan is very controlled about his image.”

“I've been told by people, 'It's strange that you're a celebrity but you've never missed a single occasion to be there for your kids, you're a very hands-on parent.' I'm a very involved parent, actually.”

“Age-old therapies that Indian households have followed for centuries, like drinking kasha's, mixing turmeric with pepper and honey, planting tulsi for purification and the use of aromatherapy to boost immunity have now become new age therapies.”

“I hug my kids, staff, dogs; that is the way I show my affection. If people don't understand that, I can't help it.”

“Religion comes with several diktats but spirituality doesn't have any rules.”

“If you have to ban something, ban products which are actually harmful for us, like cigarettes. Smoking also affects the health of people standing around you. But we won't ban such things. We're told don't eat fish, don't eat meat, don't wear miniskirts and other such things.”

“I don't know how we existed when there was no SMS. It saves time, as it cuts out all the pleasantries exchanged on the phone.”

“I can bulldoze my way into anything, and I'm hot-headed like a bull.”

“Being fit and healthy is all about staying active and, when I say active, I mean in every stage of life.”

“I love to be known as a sex symbol.”