Twinkle Khanna Quotes

I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.

I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.

I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.

The truth is people are very nice. The other truth is, it's very annoying to be constantly interrupted. I don't love myself enough to want to share myself with everybody.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.

Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...

You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people. I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get up past around... a minute, minute and a half, I gotta get the fuck out of there.

You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

One of the first things I said when I signed on for the show was No hugs! Full House was all based on hugs.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

I think there are always gonna be challenges and people throwing themselves at you in a nondiscreet way. But it's just so public now that you have to be careful saying hi or giving somebody a hug, because then somebody will turn it into something else.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.