Freida Pinto Quotes

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

Young women who want an education will not be stopped

I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.

As the worlds getting filled with temptations, were getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.

All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, 'Who is she?' But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Everybody comes up with this term lucky-"Oh, she's so lucky." Even though I was lucky, I had a lot of struggle before that. I said I was going to give up everything at age 25 and get into event management because nothing was going for me. I used to have a lot of nervous breakdowns.

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.

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.

I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

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.

I like working on big budget films.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.

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.

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.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors - the number of doctors I've seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

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

I love going into a country and just blending.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

It's not that difficult to say no when you don't want to do something.

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

I'm a human being before anything else.

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

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

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

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

Anybody, anywhere in the world, all they want is to be free, to choose what they want to do without having someone tell them how to do it.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

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

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.

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

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day youre born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.