Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Quotes

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I always live by the idea that my favorite job is my next one. It doesn't really matter what the content is.

I think there's always merit in getting out of our ideological silos and being exposed to points of view with which we don't always agree.

I don't really have a structured path of wanting to say, 'This is what I'll do next.' I'm just going to read a bunch of scripts and see which one I love. There are so many things I would love to play, in all different genres.

I don't think in a box. I think in a sphere.

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

I'm a firm believer that you don't have to pick one career path.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.

You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.

My goal is to continue in Europe, but never rule out a return to Brazil.

If people stay in their own little bubbles, none of us will reach our full potential.

I want to expand my horizons and mix with different people.

University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.'

If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.