Quotes from Priyanka Chopra

I think great skin is always important. With lots of makeup, by the end of the night, you look like you're melting!

Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be.

To convince another part of the world that Bollywood is not just jokers who break into song and dance was very difficult. I'm literally ploughing the ground and making people understand that Indian actors are not a joke.

I think because I was Miss World, and I modeled for a little while, I have - I just like heels, actually. I think that's the truth. I'm trying to find an excuse.

When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.

I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

When it comes to an everyday situation, I am like an ant. I keep putting money aside because I know that if I want to splurge, there is a big mountain of money that I can use.

I've always had a glam squad to do my makeup because of Miss India and Miss World, so I never really learned much about doing it myself, unfortunately. I do try to pick up what I can, though! The most incredible product that has ever been discovered in makeup, according to me, is mascara.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.

It's a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn't say it, but I'm a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don't like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it.

I don't believe in being a size 0. I don't believe in starving. Women should totally embrace their curves.

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.

I have no time to write songs.

Guess girls are normally blonde, blue-eyed bombshells. It was nice to be a brunette one.

I think it was very important for me to look at starting to build a safety net so that I didn't feel the insecurity of the ups and downs of finances because I might do no film a year, or I might do six commercials, or I might do none.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I eat right and ensure that I burn it all by working out equally as much as I eat.

Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I'll always be a Hindi film star first.