Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Quotes

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

It was a natural progression for me to find that if acting was what made me most comfortable, the best thing for me to progress toward was television and film.

I would love to win an Oscar one day. That would be a very wonderful thing. But in the meantime, I really hope that I make films I'm proud of. A lot of people aren't going to like the movies I make, I'm sure. But as long as I'm proud of the movie and I'm not selling out, and I'm doing things that make me happy and make me grow as an actress, I'll be good.

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.'

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.