Freida Pinto Quotes

Asian-Americans often struggle to be good sons and daughters, but it's ultimately your life. In the end, you have to find what you want.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

I am a private human.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

I'm not Miley Cyrus. There may be some similarities, but I'm my own person.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

Freedom is relative.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

We're allowed as adults to create a life that we like. Kids don't have that freedom.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.