Quotes from Payal Rohatgi

I'm a private person and hate making friends.

When I joined Bollywood, I too wanted decent and challenging roles but there were no offers. Directors and producers look at me as a woman who is willing to expose and that is the only reason they want to sign me.

No matter what their profession, there's a certain category of men who let passion overcome reason as soon as a girl offers them her company. More often than not, they turn out to be losers.

My fans will see me in a lot of different roles.

I know the audience wants to see me without clothes in my coming films. At the risk of disappointing them, let me say that it's simply not going to happen. I will not do any such film.

I am always experimenting with roles.

Just because I'm quiet that doesn't mean I'm fake and artificial.

I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn't gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress was abducted and assaulted or when Telugu actress Sri Reddy was banned for talking about sexual harassment. These instances were more deserving of the #MeToo movement than anything else.

I might be an actor professionally, but as a person I should know what our rituals, religion or our history is. Kumbh Mela really helps you in this.

I am a learner and always learning. I want to push myself to the farthest limits.

Feminism in India is very fake.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good roles to come my way.

I don't go out of the way to create controversies, I know some actresses pay their publicist money to create a controversy, but I don't know why this happens to me.

I will try exercise my freedom of speech by avoiding legalities.

Slumdog Millionaire has been a great achievement. It has opened the doors of Hollywood for Indian cinema.

'Laila' is very interesting and like Ram Gopal Varma's 'Darna Mana Hai,' it is episodic in nature.

My oomph factor helped me enter B-town. I have a naturally gifted body.

I realized that good looks is not enough to be an actress for a long time.

When you surrender to God, He makes things happen.

Look, let's be honest. No one is interested in seeing me act. My bare arms, legs, front and back grab more attention than how I perform on screen.

My first reality show, 'Bigg Boss 2,' was a good experience, as I learned a lot of things inside the house.

It's been eight years now that I have been working in Bollywood and have done everything - from item songs to character roles to reality shows.

I have always had a career, be it modeling, reality TV, or even my not-so-great films.

I'm going through this phase where I don't make an effort to make friends with anyone. This is primarily because I know that people try to make friends only till the time the camera is on. I'm not comfortable with such friendships and I didn't resort to it in 'Bigg Boss' either.