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“I can't suddenly say that because I am acting opposite Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, and Varun Dhawan... I should get the same salary as theirs. Because I won't get the audience to the theatres as much as they will.”
“You can make me work for 14 hours at a stretch, but don't make me sit.”
“There are many projects that come an actor's way, and one cannot say yes to all of them. Reasons of saying no vary all the time, but for me, it has never been on the pretext of not wanting to work with 'a particular actor' ever! I would never do that.”
“As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.”
“I knew that the only way to get noticed would be by doing something that was not expected of me. I was sure I wouldn't get noticed if I continued to play the heroine in films like 'Chashme Baddoor.'”
“At the end of the day, it's show business: you earn money to make money.”
“I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.”
“My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.”
“If my films fail, I will work on something else; my life will not end. And the film is not the end-all of my life.”
“I judge my film choices based on the director, and then I see how much the story has affected me when I read it or when I hear it in the narration. Then comes how important my role is in it, but primarily director, script, and then role.”
“I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.”
“In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.”
“Over the years, we have been conditioned that certain communities need to be looked upon in a certain typical way. So I think we need to question the logic behind it. 'Mulk' is going to question that logic - and where did it start and why did it start and the need to change it immediately.”
“I have always been inclined towards sports.”
“As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut, then a fighter pilot, and then later, as I grew up, I was focused on scoring high marks so that I could do an MBA in marketing.”
“I am not much of a trained actor. I have to get my brain and heart to go deep inside the situation, and then, probably, I can start acting. It takes me a little while to get out of it.”
“With 'Judwaa 2,' I captured the kind of market that I could have never penetrated into on another occasion.”
“I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.”
“I make sure I don't repeat my genre, don't repeat a role for sure.”
“Having done both commercial and hard-hitting cinema, I can say none of them are easy.”