Quotes from Anushka Sharma

We have to look good... our hair does get damaged due to straightening... tonging. We have to do something that helps our hair look good and healthy.

Love me, hate me, I'm here to stay!

When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.

I never come to know if somebody is in love with me; they will have to hold placards and say it.

I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

I find Tom Hardy very hot. About Bollywood actors, I dont think like that, as I know them.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

Acting has always been my passion and will remain so.

I don't want to go and play a cliched Indian girl.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Wrestling is not an action; it is a sport.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled in studies. I was a topper in school and college, so when I decided to become a model, people said, 'Oh your daughter is modeling,' so at least my parents could say, 'Yeah but she also came first in class.'

I think it is a wonderful process of transformation from an actress to a producer.

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

I find it really cheap when people talk about an issue just for the sake of talking and are not making any difference to the actual situation.

I'd rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.

I don't want to endorse products that propagate fair skin at all.

My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.

I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.

I treat my acting career with a lot of respect.