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If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.

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.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Movies are an expensive business.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'