FREIDA PINTO

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

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

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.

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

I love going into a country and just blending.

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

I absolutely love London; it is one of my favourite cities in the world.

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin.

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

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

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

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

I definitely need to date someone who is calm.

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

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

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

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'm a human being before anything else.

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

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

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.

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

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.'