Manushi Chhillar Quotes

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.

Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I want to become successful and represent a different form of beauty in my generation.

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side parting - almost church-like. But beneath the sheath of hair lay this Amazonian, strong-looking frame.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.

I know some women are intimidated by makeup.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

When you have a cute outfit on and your makeup looks amazing, the first thing people comment on is your image. When you don't wear makeup, you hear things like, 'Oh wow, you look tired,' or, 'You're so brave for not wearing makeup!'

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'

As a young girl, I would watch the Miss South Africa competition wishing with all my heart that one day I, too, would be able to walk on that stage, just like those glamorous women I saw on television.

Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

I always wanted to come into the spotlight. I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought it would but this is still something I knew I would be going through and would have to experience.