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.
From Freida Pinto
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.
When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
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 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.
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.
There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.
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