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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.

Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.